We’ve just made it easier to find research resources in the collection of the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute, one of the world’s largest art libraries. Last week, we launched a restyled and updated interface for the online catalog of the library’s holdings, which include over one million books, periodicals, and auction catalogs, [...]
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Tags: art history, GRI, library catalog, Photo Study Collection, photographs, Research Library, scholarship, technology, Voyager
Last month, I gave a presentation with my colleague Tina Shah at the annual Museum Computer Network (MCN) conference in Atlanta about an online collaboration tool for scholars that several of us in the Web group at the Getty have been developing (view our presentation here). The project is experimental, and since we only have [...]
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Tags: art history, digital humanities, Digital Mellini, digital publishing, drupal, Getty Research Institute collection, Getty scholars, provenance, scholarship
Update—videos of this event have been archived here. The three-day symposium Between Theory and Practice: Rethinking Latin American Art in the 21st Century is streaming live this weekend, from Friday March 11 through Sunday March 13. We invite you to join us online or on-site at the Getty Center on Friday and the Museum of [...]
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Tags: art history, contemporary art, Latin America, MOLAA, symposium, video
Years ago I found myself in the Metropolitan Museum of Art with a posse of 15 finance geeks in tow, enjoying respite from a college trip to study financial institutions on Wall Street. Being the only art nerd amongst the number crunchers, I had been unanimously elected to lead the other students through the Met. [...]
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Tags: art history, birthdays, French art, Honoré Daumier
It’s been 27 years since art historian Linda Nochlin published her essay “The Imaginary Orient,” a critique of sexist and racist depictions of “brown and black folk” by Western artists such as Jean-Léon Gérôme. Back then, “I was put off to the depths of my being,” Nochlin said of Gérôme’s paintings at a recent panel [...]
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Tags: art history, colonialism, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Lalla Essaydi, Linda Nochlin, Mary Roberts, Orientalism
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