Makes Cleaning out the Basement Worthwhile

Everybody should get started on their spring cleaning now! Look what they found a t Yale University.
http://gothamist.com/2010/07/03/yale_finds_velasquez_painting_in_ba.php

The Shame Factor

The war we want to forget

Why American art museums are reluctant to mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War

Seen here, Winslow Homer's "Prisoners from the Front", 1866.

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/The+war+we+want+to+forget/23025

Art School Traditions

The art academies in 19th Century Paris are well documented. Check out England's art school tradition. See some beautiful examples of academic drawing at the Victoria and Albert Museum's website.

http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/paintings/art-school-drawings/index.html

Google Art Brings Us Up Close to Great Works

The Google Art Project is making big waves in the museum world.

Fantastic high resolution images with exquisite resolution and zoom, from some of the top museums in the world. Double click on an image to get super close views.

http://www.googleartproject.com/

The End of Kodachrome

As every Paul Simon fan knows Kodachrome gave us "the greens of summer and made all the world a sunny day." But the last roll of this legendary film has now been processed at a small photo lab in Kansas. Kodachrome we bid you a fond farewell.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/us/30film.html?_r=1

Dropbox: File Sharing Made Easy

Need to share large files (like image files) or synchronize your home computer and your work computer? Or just keep everything backed up on-line?

I keep hearing great things about Dropbox, http://www.dropbox.com/press
You can try it out for free with up to two gigabytes of storage space available.

And it works with the Ipad too!

The Digital Humanities: Bringing It All Together

It is like a liberal arts student's dream! Science and the Humanities coming together to shine a light into new areas. How will new technology create new fields of studies? Read the New York Times article and start imagining.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/arts/17digital.html