February Online Resources for Art and Design

RISD Visual Resources Center’s favorite online sources of digital images, January-February 2010

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November Online Resources for Art and Design

As we continue adding websites to our del.ici.ous collection of bookmarks, we want to keep you informed of our favorite recent additions, organized by subject: Fine Arts Bruce Nauman Leave the Land Alone: Documentation of Bruce Nauman’s performance of Untitled (Leave the Land Alone), 1969/2009. The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated: [...]

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I Heart Photograph

New York City based curator Laurel Ptak created an online photography blog in 2006 called, I Heart Photograph. She updates the blog with new artists everyday. It’s a great resource for curators, artists and photographers to find interesting shows and contemporary photographers.

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June Online Resources for Art and Design

This is a summary of the most recent websites we have added to our del.ici.ous collection of bookmarks, organized by subject. Fine Arts ArtBabble The Auteurs Barlow Collection of Chinese Ceramics, Bronze and Jade Center for Contemporary Canadian Art Database Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource Architecture/ Design Access Ceramics Architecture of the Getty Center Fold School: Cardboard [...]

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RDID Additions: Classic Polish Posters

The RISD Archive of Graphic Design and Illustration has a wonderful collection of posters from the classic era of Polish graphic design. Visual Resources Center staff are currently digitizing this fantastic collection, which includes film, theater, music and ballet posters by well-known Polish designers such as Franciszek Starowieyski, Eugeniusz Get-Stankiewicz and Jan Lenica. We would [...]

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Academic Film Archive of North America AFANA

AFANA is an organization dedicated to acquiring, promoting and preserving academic film and other historically important films in the fields of art, history, social science, literature and science. With the help of the Internet Archive, they are preserving some truly hidden gems of non-feature film making in the U.S. Check out their website. One of [...]

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Photostreams on sidebar

There are so many good images of art and design stuff out there, that we decided it would be good to link to some photostreams from Flickr. The streams will change every couple of days, and if there are any RISD students or faculty out there who want us to link to their artwork, please [...]

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Launch of the World Digital Library

Today is the official launch of the World Digital Library, a joint project between the Library of Congress and UNESCO which creates an “easily-accessible collection of the world’s cultural riches that would tell the stories and highlight the achievements of all countries and cultures.” The library currently holds material in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, [...]

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Online Resources for Art and Design

There are so many hundreds of art and humanities-related sites out there, that we thought it would be good to have a monthly listing of the ones we like best. We will bookmark them in del.icio.us, and you’ll be able to see them all, not just the more recent. Here is our choice for the [...]

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