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

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Unconventional Art
Today’s TED playlist exhibits art that transcends the museum wall. These speakers, all artists or creators, talk about their unusual means to remarkable ends. Jonathan Harris creates digital artscapes out of Eskimo feasts, balloon wishes and the Internet’s feelings. Robert Lang revolutionizes a centuries-old paper pastime through simple (or maybe not-so-simple) mathematics. Vik Muniz finds art supplies in unlikely places — dirt, chocolate, diamonds, clouds. Miru Kim explores massive abandoned underground places — and then photographs herself in them, nude, to bring these dark spaces into sharp focus.
http://blog.ted.com/2010/08/11/unconventional-art-todays-tedtalks-playlist/
John Cage and Contemporary Art

BALTIC Curator Alessandro Vincintelli talks to artists Graham Gussin, Katie Paterson and Sam Belinfante about the new Cage Mix exhibition and the influence of John Cage on contemporary art practice.
http://www.balticmill.com/podcasts/

Silent Animation

This website gives online access to the UCLA archive of animations from the silent era of cinema. At May 2010, 11 vintage films from 1900 to 1928 are freely available for online viewing. Also available are commentaries from the preservationists involved, film notes, and information on the historical context. A Study Guide is available for download in PDF format. Films are also available for download in either MPEG2 or MP4 format.
http://animation.library.ucla.edu/
Roomle
Roomle is an online design tool which allows you to create floor plans, room layouts and designs simply and easily for free.
http://www.roomle.com/
Digital Comic Museum
Digital Comic Museum is a very large website archive of U.S. comic books known to be in the public domain. As such, it includes a wealth of high-quality scans of vintage comics, freely available for reading. Most comics are from the 1940s and 1950s. Some newspaper comic strips are also included. Files are in the standard CBR (Comic Book Reader) format, for which Comical is possibly the best free viewer. Free registration is required to download the comics, but not to search the website. The Digital Comic Museum will be a valuable resource for those researching the history of comics in the U.S., as well as for those interested in the dynamic hand-made typography of the medium, the depiction of stereotypes during the 20th century, and the ways that the standards and politics of the time were presented to children.
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/
AdViews

AdViews: a digital archive of vintage television commercials' is an online collection from Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. The archive contains "thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s ... created or collected by the ad agency Benton & Bowles or its successor, D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles". Videos can be browsed or searched, and viewed via iTunes service. The archive seems especially rich in animated U.S. adverts from the 1950s and 1960s. It will be useful for those interested in branding, product design, post-war typography, mass media depictions of stereotypes, commercial animation, and the history of advertising in the USA.
http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adviews/

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MIT Visualizing Cultures
Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto largely inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the world (or imagined it to be).
Topical units to date focus on Japan in the modern world and early-modern China. The thrust of these explorations extends beyond Asia per se, however, to address "culture" in much broader ways—cultures of modernization, war and peace, consumerism, images of "Self" and "Others," and so on.
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/home/index.html

RSA Talks and Events
Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts has made available a huge number of downloadable videos and podcasts on its website. Particular subject areas include sociology, politics, economics, design and environment.
http://www.thersa.org/events/vision



Steve Mellor Comics
Samples of 80s comic book work by Steve Mellor.
http://cartoonretro.blogspot.com/search/label/Steve%20Mellor

Archigram Archival Project

The Archigram Archival Project makes the work of the seminal architectural group Archigram available free online for public viewing and academic study. The project was run by EXP, an architectural research group at the University of Westminster. It was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
http://archigram.westminster.ac.uk/

Screen Search Fashion

Screen Search Fashion is an online resource that provides a thematic guide to aspects of 1920s and 1930s fashion and dress, as depicted in film from Screen Archive South East (SASE)'s collections. The vast potential of non-fiction film as a resource for students, who are interested in fashion and dress is highlighted by this resource, which has the potential to contribute to dress historians' developing interest in everyday fashions. The site provides a thematic guide to aspects of 1920s and 1930s fashion, as depicted in over 200 newly digitised stills and clips, enabling the researcher to discover key aspects of fashion and dress of the period in their historical and design contexts. The site includes links to records in Screen Archive South East's online database, where the films can be explored in further detail.
http://www.brighton.ac.uk/screenarchive/fashion/

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Ten Contemporary Chinese Photographers Show their Work at Sanatorium


ISTANBUL,TURKEY - Sanatorium opened "Passing China: Contemporary Chinese Photographers. This exhibition brings together the work of ten emerging and established artists whose work has been displayed worldwide Chen Qiang, Lian Dongya, Li Wei, Liu Bolin, Maleonn, Miao Xiaochun, Pan Yue, Wang Yiquing, Zuoxiao Zuzhou. Using photography, these artists delve into the conflict between China’s past and future and the plight of the individual caught amidst the transition. On exhibition through 24 April.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2010-04-06-00-07-31-ten-contemporary-chinese-photographers-show-their-work-at-sanatorium.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+artknowledge+%28Art+Knowledge+News+-+Keeping+You+in+Touch+with+the+World+of+Art...%29

Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma Opens 11th Collection Exhibition

HELSINKI.- In an exhibition, visitors are accustomed to watching, listening and observing art alone and with others. But what happens when the role of an observer becomes more active? What kind of an event is a set-up? Just like contemporary art itself, the 11th collection exhibition of the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma is open-mindedly crossing all kinds of borders. The leading role is given to the artist as well as to the viewer. It’s a Set-up is about the experiential and participatory aspect of art, and considers such themes as time and duration, the presentation and staging of artwork, performance and human relationships.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2010-04-05-21-45-21-museum-of-contemporary-art-kiasma-opens-11th-collection-exhibition.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+artknowledge+%28Art+Knowledge+News+-+Keeping+You+in+Touch+with+the+World+of+Art...%29

Cory Arcangel: The Sharper Image at Museum of Contemporary Art
NORTH MIAMI, FL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) presents the first comprehensive U.S. museum survey of Cory Arcangel, a pioneer in the use of digital technologies in contemporary art. The exhibition Cory Arcangel: The Sharper Image is part of MOCA’s Knight Exhibition Series and will be on view through May 9, 2010.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2010-04-05-23-06-02-cory-arcangel-the-sharper-image-at-museum-of-contemporary-art.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+artknowledge+%28Art+Knowledge+News+-+Keeping+You+in+Touch+with+the+World+of+Art...%29

The Bibliography of the History of Art
The Bibliography of the History of Art database is now available to researchers free of charge via the Getty Institute.
The Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) is the world's most comprehensive bibliography of scholarly writing about the history of western art. BHA includes articles from over 1,200 journals.
Link: http://library.getty.edu/bha

Smarthistory
Smarthistory.org is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook. Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker began smarthistory in 2005 by creating a blog featuring free audio guides in the form of podcasts for use in The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Audio and video conversations about works of art are created, opening up the possibilities of Web 2.0 to create communities and foster collaboration.
Link: http://smarthistory.org/

Wim Crouwel

The Het Geheugen van Nederland (The Memory of the Netherlands) is a dutch website that contains an extensive collection of illustrations, photographs, texts, film and audio fragments, all of Dutch making, including an impressive archive of work by Wim Crouwel.
Link: http://tinyurl.com/y9xtc6e

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What Things Do is a new self-publishing platform for comics artists Jordan Crane and Sammy Markham. Several comics can already be freely accessed and read online, with more to follow in the future.
Link: http://whatthingsdo.com/


Victorian Infographics Bibliodyssey.
Link: http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/12/victorian-infographics.html


Antony Gormley
The Tate's website has provided this online resource about the sculptor, Anthony Gormley. This series of videos includes an introduction to Gormley's art by Dr Richard Noble, Visual Arts Department, Goldsmiths College. Four examples of Gormley's work can be explored in individual video files, 'Bed'; 'Natural Selection'; 'Sound II'; and 'Another Place'. Gormley also discusses his work in an online interview. Alternatively the video can be viewed in segments where Gormley answers individual questions: 'Is modern art for everyone?', 'What significance does the body have in 21st century art?' or 'Has being an artist been liberating for you?'
Link: http://www.tate.org.uk/btseries/bb/antonygormley/

Marcus du Sautoy on Symmetry
The world turns on symmetry, from the spin of subatomic particles to the dizzying beauty of an arabesque. But there's more to it than meets the eye. In the latest TED talk, Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy offers a glimpse of the invisible numbers that marry all symmetrical objects.
Link: http://blog.ted.com/2009/10/symmetry_realit.php



Shakespeare Quartos
The highly-anticipated Shakespeare Quartos Archive has officially launched today with a complete digital collection of rare early editions of Hamlet. For the first time, all 32 existing quarto copies of the play held by UK and US institutions are freely available online in one place. This initiative is jointly led by the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford and the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC.
Link: http://www.quartos.org



Peter Doig
The Tate Britain's website provides this online resource to accompany a retrospective exhibition on the artist Peter Doig, which ran from 5 February to 11 May 2008. This online resource featured selected works displayed in each of the eight rooms of the original exhibition. The online exhibition begins with paintings from his time at the Chelsea School of Art 1989-1990, when his landscapes were unlike anything else in the London art scene at this time. It continues with selected works providing a comprehensive overview of his work to date, and tracing his recurrring motifs and his approach to image-making. A video is provided in which the artist guides the visitor around his exhibition, and other resources show the works by Doig in the Tate collection, and an article from the Spring 2008 issue of Tate Etc on Doig and his artwork.
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/peterdoig/rooms/

Design for a Living World
The Nature Conservancy's Web site provides information on their project 'Design for a Living World'. Ten designers, including Ted Muehling, Kate Spade, Ezri Tarazi and Maya Lin, were invited to create new objects from sustainable materials sourced from around the world. Photographs illustrating how the materials used by the designers connect to real people and real places, and are included in the sections on each designer. The Web site is organised under place, ranging from Australia to China; materials used for each item and the designer. A slide show for the object or for the designer are accessed via hyperlinks. There are video interviews with each designer. The exhibition will be held at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York from 14 May 2009 to 4 January 2010.
ink: http://www.nature.org/design

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Intypes (Interior Archetypes Research and Teaching Project), is an online database providing a consistent... "typology of contemporary interior design practices". This
free and well-designed website was launched in July 2009 at the NeoCon World's Trade Fair in Chicago. The Project, said to be "13 years in the making", has been worked on by Cornell University faculty and sixteen graduate students. The database has an advanced search form, and may also be accessed by intuitive illustrated A-Z indexes that are clearly linked from the front page. The website also has a full description of the project and project staff, and two founding partners - the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) and Interior Design magazine.
Link: http://intypes.cornell.edu/




Computer Baroque Launched in March 2009 at Tate Modern in London, 'Computer Baroque' is an online archival collection of exemplary and innovative short films, all made using computer animation between 1982 and 1995. 15 short films from this period are freely available to view on the website, and are presented using Flash video. Films are accompanied by substantial curatorial notes by curator Richard Wright. The collection aims to represent a period... "in which computer animation was the focus for audacious and exuberant experiments across all areas of new media, art and technology".
Link: http://www.animateprojects.org/films/by_project/computer_baroque/baroque




Su-Mei Tse presents New Multi-Media Installation at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
In 2007, Luxembourg- and Berlin-based visual artist Su Mei Tse lived at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, drawing inspiration from the museum’s rich collection, its history, and the Dutch Room, where the empty frames remain as an ever-present reminder of loss and absence. This summer, the 2003 the Golden Lion award-winner returns to present a solo exhibition and new sound installation in Floating Memories, on view July 16th through October 18th, 2009. Programming during the run of exhibition includes artist and gallery talks, a book signing, and a musical performance featuring Su Mei Tse, contemporary visual artists Lee Mingwei and Cliff Evans, songwriter and performer Niko Hafkenscheid, gallery owner Peter Blum (Peter Blum Gallery, New York), curator Enrico Lunghi, Director of the Mudam Museum in Luxembourg, and Pieranna Cavalchini, Curator of Contemporary Art, Gardner Museum, will accompany the exhibition.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2009-07-15-00-59-17-su-mei-tse-presents-new-multi-media-installation-at-the-isabella-stewart-gardner-museum.html



This website is the online companion to the exhibition `Fashioning Felt' hosted by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. The exhibition took place from the 6th March until the 7th September 2009. The exhibition focuses on felt that has been produced by hand or by machine-felting process but it excludes non-woven felt and techniques in order to emphasise the essential elements used in felt making. There are three main sections. The section on objects, shows images and details of exhibits as well as links to related designs. The section on process includes photos showing how a Turkmenistan carpet is made. There is also a blog. One can browse objects by keyword such as architecture, fashion or furniture or by designer.

http://exhibitions.cooperhewitt.org/Fashioning-Felt/