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GETTY MUSEUM FREE ONLINE ACCESS

The museum's 'Open Content Program' which makes 4,600 images, free for use, by anyone whom they inspire!

This excellent, high-quality resource aggregates artworks held in the Getty's eminent collections on one searchable web-space. Visitors to the site can select, use, modify and publish images for any purpose they see fit. The Getty want to know how the images will be used before they are released to use, share, manipulate or appropriate - no holds barred! Manuscripts, paintings, photographs and sculptural works in the public domain are some of the many types of art at the public's disposal.

The Open Content Program is part of the Getty's broader commitment to share as many of their art resources as they can, digitally. This includes plans to add further images from the museum's collection over time, and to add the special collections of the Getty Research Institute to the online site as the holdings receive copyright-clearance.

For a museum of the Getty's stature, its pledge to open digital access is representative of the move by galleries and museums to embrace new technological innovation and digital culture. Judge for yourself the significance of the resource by browsing its full contents here.

 http://www.getty.edu/about/opencontent.html

 http://www.getty.edu/research/special_collections/notable/index.html

Notable Works and Collections

The following selections highlight some of the Getty Research Institute's most significant holdings.

		Ada Louise Huxtable Archive Documenting the most important voice in architectural criticism over the last 50 years, this archive contains a rich range of materials that detail Huxtable's powerful influence on the fields of architecture, construction, and city politics.
		Knoedler Gallery Archive Illuminating the operations of one of America's oldest and most preeminent galleries, this archive adds key unpublished resources to the Research Institute's collections related to the history of taste, the art market, collecting, and patronage.
		LA Liber Amicorum A unique artists' book of works on paper from Los Angeles's leading graffiti and tattoo artists, executed as an artistic response to the Research Institute's collections of calligraphy and writing manuals and other rare books.
		Man Ray Archives A collection of datebooks, correspondence, photos, and materials related to the artist Man Ray.
		Robert Mapplethorpe Archive This donation by the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation represents the definitive research collection on the artist, including rare, early works and personal correspondence with friends John McKendry, Patti Smith, and Sam Wagstaff.
		Philipp Otto Runge's Times of Day A rare copy of Philipp Otto Runge's first-edition suite of four prints,Times of Day, which stands as a monument of German Romantic art.
		Ed Ruscha's Streets of Los Angeles Archives A valuable source of rare archival material by Ed Ruscha, one of the leading postwar art figures, that captures the city's architecture and thoroughfares.
		Harry Smith Papers  A wide-ranging archive of artwork, film, and ephemera from this influential cult figure of the Beat generation.

 NEW ONLINE RESOURCES: MOVIE TITLE STILLS COLLECTION

The Movie Title Stills Collection, is a reservoir of Hollywood film titles: main titles, end titles and typography from cinema trailers captured as screenshots and ordered by decade. It's rather addictive looking through the collection from 1920 to the present day including an 'updates' section for new additions.

http://annyas.com/screenshots/

 FREE ONLINE ART BOOKS AND CATALOGUES

The financial cost of many high-quality art books and exhibition catalogues can sometimes be off-putting. the growing trend to open access in the academic world is opening up a number of opportunities to view scholarly research and even entire books online!  Two of New York's famous institutions: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum are sharing their resources with the arts world.

The Metropolitan Museum launched MetPublications last year, a project which aims to offer digital access to almost all books and journals published by the Metropolitan since 1870. The collection is sprouting up with an impressive 700 free art books and catalogues available to the art community at the last count! There's a broad international perspective with just about every area of the visual and decorative arts covered. The period from 1964 to the present day profiles highly although watch out for some of the in-print titles which may only be previewed with a link to purchase the book. Thankfully, the contents of all other titles can be read online or downloaded as PDF files which still manages to cover a broad spectrum of the arts.

http://www.metmuseum.org/research/metpublications/about-metpublications

 The Guggenheim Museum has made 99 art catalogues available for free, offering visual introductions to the exhibitions of many significant artists. To search, select a text from the collection and click the "Read Catalogue Online" button which will allow you to begin reading the catalogue in a pop-up browser.

 http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/publications/from-the-archives?layout=default&filter_type=archive&reset=0

http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/publications/from-the-archives/items/view/67

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RCA Research Repository

The Royal College of Art has just launched its new Research Repository, featuring its academic research activities since 2008 in the areas of Art, Design and Communication.

http://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/

 

 

 

 

Black and White Films

An almanac of black and white films spanning all classic film genres from the 1910s to 1960s is available to watch for free.All films on the website have been copyright-cleared with many able to be legally dowloaded.
http://www.bnwmovies.com/



Creativity Portal

The Creativity Portal is a joint initiative of Creative Scotland and Education Scotland, and provides up to the minute news on free and subsidised partnership opportunities, workshops, CPD and competitions from creative partners as well as celebrating creative learning across Scotland. It also features a number of videos of artists, designers and practitioners talking about their work.
http://creativityportal.org.uk/

Moving Image Education

The term 'moving image education' refers to learning and teaching practices which develop moving image media literacy.These practices involve analysing moving image texts, creating them, exploring, appreciating and sharing them, and being discerning about them. This is neatly expressed in the widely accepted '3Cs' of media literacy: the cultural, the critical and the creative. These three aspects have shaped the design of this .http://www.movingimageeducation.org/

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Cambridge University on YouTube

Cambridge University, in common with many other leading colleges and universities, has set up its own channel on YouTube designed to showcase some of the research, discoveries and innovations that take place at the University. As you’d expect from an institution encompassing 31 colleges and over 150 departments, the range of subjects covered stretches from the arts and humanities to entropy and mathematics
http://www.youtube.com/user/CambridgeUniversity

Gavin Turk

New from TateShots. Gavin Turk has long been interested in issues of authorship and identity; his artworks include images of himself disguised as Sid Vicious, Che Guevara and Andy Warhol amongst others
http://channel.tate.org.uk/media/1486062077001

Body Pods

Discover the strange and surprising human body in Body Pods, a series of 12 podcasts by artists and scientists, each one exploring a different part of your body.
The Ear is the first in the serie. Artists to follow include Francesca Beard, Amanda Boyle, Stacy Makishi, David Rosenberg, and Richard Thomas.
http://fueltheatre.com/projects/body-pods

Isaac Newton's Papers

Isaac Newton’s own annotated copies of his works, notebooks and manuscripts are being made available online by Cambridge University Library and the University of Sussex. Researchers, students and the public can now zoom in to each page to explore texts like Principia Mathematica in incredible detail and make use of transcriptions to understand Newton’s mind – and handwriting. Several of the manuscripts in the collection contain the handwritten line ‘not fit to be printed’, scrawled by Thomas Pellet, a Fellow of the Royal Society, who went through Newton’s papers after his death to decide which ones should be published.
http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/

Fluxus Reader

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Fluxus—the international laboratory of art, architecture, design and music—Swinburne University of Technology has released a free digital copy of The Fluxus Reader.
Fluxus began in the 1950s as a loose, international community of artists, architects, composers and designers. By the 1960s, Fluxus had become a laboratory of ideas and an arena for artistic experimentation in Europe, Asia and the United States. Described as 'the most radical and experimental art movement of the 1960s', Fluxus has challenged conventional thinking on art and culture for half a century. Fluxus artists had a central role in the birth of such key contemporary art forms as concept art, installation, performance art, intermedia and video. Despite this influence, the scope and scale of this unique phenomenon have made it difficult to explain Fluxus in normative historical and critical terms.
In The Fluxus Reader, editor Ken Friedman offers the first comprehensive overview of this challenging and controversial group. The Fluxus Reader is written by leading scholars and experts from Europe, the United States and Australia.
http://researchbank.swinburne.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/swin:9624

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Camera-Less Photography

As part of its Shadow Catchers exhibition on camera-less photography, the V&A has commissioned a short film on each of the five international artists featured in the show: Floris Neususs, Pierre Cordier, Gary Fabian Miller, Susan Derges and Adam Fuss
http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/p/photography/


Management and Business Studies Portal

The British Library has just launched its new Management and Business Studies Portal, bringing together full text research reports, summaries, working papers, videos and exclusive articles by leading researchers and consultants to help you get timely access to emerging research findings. As well as these digital documents, you'll find details of books, journal articles, reports, websites, datasets, sound recordings, videos and other resources from the British Library's collections that are relevant to your search
http://www.mbsportal.bl.uk/

As a special feature in issue 20 of their online magazine TateShots, Tate online has provided this video remembering the art and humour of the Young British Artist Angus Fairhurst who died in March 2008. Artists Gavin Turk and Mat Collishaw, as well as Tate Director Nicholas Serota, recall their memories of Fairhurst, an English artist, who worked in installation, photography and video, alongside images of his huge range of work on exhibition at the Arnolfini in Bristol. This video can be viewed online or downloaded as an MP4 on a range of media player software such as iTunes and QuickTime player. A transcript of the commentary is also available.
http://channel.tate.org.uk/tateshots-blog/?item=18099

Google Art Project
Seventeen leading art galleries and museums across the world have been announced as the initial participants in Google Art Project, a version of the idea which allows visitors to navigate corridors and pore over the minute details of canvasses from the Rijkmuseum to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. UK representatives include Tate Britain and the National Gallery.
http://www.googleartproject.com/

Ideas Factory
Launched by the National Library of Scotland, and developed in conjunction with their Writer-in-Residence, the Ideas Factory is an interactive online workshop designed to help you create and write stories. It shows how stories are put together, and takes you through the story-writing process

http://digital.nls.uk/ideas-factory/

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Paul Rand

Steven Heller has posted a free pdf of his rare book “Paul Rand: A Designer’s Words.” Edited along with Nathan Garland and Georgette Ballance, the thin volume was created to commemorate the April 1998 Paul Rand Symposium held at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

http://www.hellerbooks.com/pdfs/catalogs_rand_designers_words.pdf

Cinemetrics

Cinemetrics is about measuring and visualizing movie data, in order to reveal the characteristics of films and to create a visual “fingerprint” for them. Information such as the editing structure, color, speech or motion are extracted, analyzed and transformed into graphic representations so that movies can be seen as a whole and easily interpreted or compared side by side.

http://cinemetrics.fredericbrodbeck.de/

The Performing Arts on Film & Television
A new catalogue is now available to download, detailing film and video materials held by the archives and collections of the British Film Institute (BFI), Arts Council England, LUX and Central St Martins British Artists Film & Video Study Collection. The Performing Arts on Film & Television Catalogue is intended for use by curators, researchers, students, performers, practitioners, artists and filmmakers. It gives an account of the histories of theatre, acting, dance, music, performance art and oratory (from politics to poetry) on film and television, through references in around 3,500 titles from the collections above.
http://www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/publications/performing-arts/

About the National Jukebox
The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives.
http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/

Yale Digital Commons

Yale University has released about 250,000 images and audio files on its Yale Digital Commons platform. All content is available to use free of charge under creative commons license terms. Search across Yale's collections of art, natural history, books, and maps, as well as photos, audio and video.
http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/

Genius of Photography
The BBC website has provided this gallery on the `Genius on Photography' to showcase what they describe as "some of the best photography ever taken" from 19th century photographers, such as Eadweard Muybridge and Jacques-Henri Lartigue, to 20th century photographers, Man Ray, Robert Capa, Ed Ruscha, Richard Billingham and Cindy Sherman. The gallery is organised in six sections, featuring the work of three different photographers in each section. This selection has been taken from a television series broadcast by the BBC, and the gallery features one key image representing the photographer, together with an extract from the televised programme.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/photography/genius/gallery/

Typographic Archives
The Typographic Archives website aims to "preserve valued web contents on typography and history of printing and writing" by archiving the contents of relevant websites that no longer exist. At the time of writing the site includes short biographies of a few of the more famous names in the history of typography, including: William Caxton; Johannes Gutenberg; and William Caslon, as well as a glossary of typographical terms and an excerpt from Beatrice Warde's lecture to the British Typographers' Guild.
http://www.typographia.org/

Robert Rauschenberg Prints
Published to accompany an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC from 28 October, 2007 to 30 March, 2008, this website provides information about prints made by American artist Robert Rauschenberg. The website concentrates on the 1960s, with his "painterly prints filled with images he clipped from newspapers and magazines", 1970s when the artist established his own print facility, Untitled Press, and 1980s and 1990s when he traveled extensively and started to use his own photographs in his art, partly for copyright reasons.
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2007/rauschenberg/

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The Power of Cartoons
New on TED Talks: in a series of witty punchlines, Patrick Chappatte makes a poignant case for the power of the humble cartoon. His projects in Lebanon, West Africa and Gaza show how, in the right hands, the pencil can illuminate serious issues and bring the most unlikely people together.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/patrick_chappatte_the_power_of_cartoons.html

The Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive is a collaborative project providing online access to performances of Shakespeare from many parts of the world as well as essays and metadata provided by scholars and educators in the field. The archive is a work in progress and currently includes a catalogue of more than 296 productions, 75 video clips, and online videos of over 30 full productions.
http://globalshakespeares.org/

Music Treasures Consortium
The Music Treasures Consortium provides online access to the world's most valued music manuscripts and print materials, held at the most renowned music archives. Researchers can search or browse materials and view digital images.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/treasures/treasures-home.html

The Future Designer
The first of a series of ThinkTanks from the V&A Museum on future issues facing contemporary design. This ThinkTank looks at The Future Designer. Watch the videos and join in the online debate.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/thinktank1/

Syd Mead
Exclusive MP3 interview with Syd Mead, the influential conceptual designer of cinematic cult classics such as Tron, Blade Runner and Aliens. What is the role of dreaming in envisioning the future, why flying cars have not become science-fact yet, and what has Syd learned about designing for the real world from designing classic sci-fi space odysseys.
http://khotanharmon.com/audio/Syd%20Mead.mp3


Prunella Clough
Tate Online has provided this resource on the archive of the artist Prunella Clough (1919-1999). This archive was acquired by the Tate after the artist`s death and has been organised under two headings `Inspirations' and `Working Methods'. Clough wrote detailed descriptions of things that caught her eye, as well as making thumbnail sketches which later informed her work. `Working Methods' shows images she cropped to create effects, reworked postcards, materials, notes on colour, descriptions of artwork and the artist at work.
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/prunellaclough/interactive.shtm