Download 35,000 Works of Art from the National Gallery, Including Masterpieces by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rembrandt & More As a young amateur painter and future art school dropout, I frequently found myself haunted by the faces of two artists, that famously odd couple from my favorite art history novelization—and Kirk Douglas role and Iggy Pop song—Lust for Life. Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, above and below respectively, the tormented Dutch fanatic and burly French bully—how, I still wonder, could such a pair have ever co-existed, however briefly? How could such beautifully skewed visions of life have existed at all? Van Gogh and Gaugin’s several self-portraits still inspire wonder. My younger self had the luxury of seeing these particular two up close and in person at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC: Van Gogh’s gaunt and piercing visage, Gauguin’s sneering self-parody. There you’ll find works by another obsessive Dutch self-portraitist, Rembrandt van Rijn, such as the lush 1659 painting below. Browse the various collections, including one devoted to self-portraits. Related Content:
The Getty Adds Another 77,000 Images to its Open Content Archive Last summer we told you that the J. Paul Getty Museum launched its Open Content Program by taking 4600 high-resolution images from the Getty collections, putting them into the public domain, and making them freely available in digital format. We also made it clear — there would be more to come. Yesterday, the Getty made good on that promise, adding another 77,000 images to the Open Content archive. The Getty also dropped into the archive another 4,930 images of European and American tapestries dating from the late 15th through the late 18th centuries. All images in the Getty Open Content program — now 87,000 in total — can be downloaded and used without charge or permission, regardless of whether you’re a scholar, artist, art lover or entrepreneur. You can start exploring the complete collection by visiting the Getty Search Gateway. For more information on the Open Content program, please visit this page. Related Content:
Google Puts Over 57,000 Works of Art on the Web In its art preservationist wing, the Cultural Institute, Google houses an enormous digital collection of artwork spanning centuries and continents in what it calls the Art Project. Google’s collection, writes Drue Kataoka at Wired, is part of a “big deal […] it signals a broader, emerging ‘open content’ art movement.” “Besides the Getty,” Kataoka notes, this movement to digitize fine art collections includes efforts by “Los Angeles’ LACMA… as well as D.C.’s National Gallery of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery. And Google. In the Art Project, you can stroll on over to Portugal’s Museu do Caramulo, for example, which Google describes as “an unusual museum in a small town” off the beaten path. Google’s collection has greatly expanded since its comparatively modest 2011 roll-out. Related Content: The British Library Puts 1,000,000 Images into the Public Domain, Making Them Free to Reuse & Remix
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 400,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use - Open Culture On Friday, The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that "more than 400,000 high-resolution digital images of public domain works in the Museum’s world-renowned collection may be downloaded directly from the Museum’s website for non-commercial use." Even better, the images can be used at no charge (and without getting permission from the museum). In making this announcement, the Met joined other world-class museums in putting put large troves of digital art online. Witness the 87,000 images from the Getty in L.A., the 125,000 Dutch masterpieces from the Rijksmuseum, the 35,000 artistic images from the National Gallery, and the 57,000 works of art on Google Art Project. The Met's online initiative is dubbed "Open Access for Scholarly Content," and, while surfing the Met's digital collections, you'll know if a particular work is free to download if it bears the "OASC" acronym. Happy rummaging. via Kottke Related Content: Download Over 250 Free Art Books From the Getty Museum
The British Library Puts 1,000,000 Images into the Public Domain, Making Them Free to Reuse & Remix Earlier this week, Oxford's Bodleian Library announced that it had digitized a 550 year old copy of the Gutenberg Bible along with a number of other ancient bibles, some of them quite beautiful. Not to be outdone, the British Library came out with its own announcement on Thursday: We have released over a million images onto Flickr Commons for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. The librarians behind the project freely admit that they don't exactly have a great handle on the images in the collection. You can jump into the entire collection here, or view a set of highlights here. To learn more about this British Library initiative, read this other Open Culture post which takes a deeper dive into the image collection. Related Content: The Rijksmuseum Puts 125,000 Dutch Masterpieces Online, and Lets You Remix Its Art The Getty Puts 4600 Art Images Into the Public Domain (and There’s More to Come) The Digital Public Library of America Launches Today, Opening Up Knowledge for All
Les langues de l'éther - Création Radiophonique Production: Philippe Baudouin Réalisation : Lionel Quantin Prise de son et mixage : Claude Niort Lecture des textes : Pierre Hatet Traduction : Louise Hénaff lue par Thibaut Buccellato Archive INA : Marie Chauveau Documentation musicale : Antoine Vuilloz et Romain Couturier Photographie spirite © IMI Agence Martienne La radio et, plus généralement, les dispositifs d’enregistrement et de diffusion sonore sont des « machines à fantômes ». Emmanuel Dilhac © Alexandre Manzanares Avec : Emmanuel Dihlac, musicien Patrizia D'Andrea, docteur en littérature comparée Marion Tournon-Branly, architecte Olivier Schefer, philosophe Christine Bergé, ethnologue et philosophe Jean Schneider, astrophysicien Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, philosophe et historienne des sciences François Bonnet, compositeur et membre du GRM Jeffrey Sconce, professeur à la Northwestern University Patrick Fuentès, conservateur des Archives Camille Flammarion à l'Observatoire de Juvisy sur Orge
Seven Big Ideas from Seven on Seven 2014 Frances Stark and David Kravitz during the Seven on Seven work day. Photo: Ed Singleton. The fifth anniversary edition of Rhizome's Seven on Seven took place on Saturday. The project pairs seven leading artists with seven influential technologists in teams of two, and challenges them to develop something new–whatever they choose to imagine—over the course of a single day. The results were unveiled to the public on Saturday at the New Museum, and are recapped here. #1. In the keynote, Kate Crawford suggested that K-Hole's #normcore trend report, as well as the Snowden-leaked GCHQ Powerpoint, could be read as manifestations of the anxieties of an age of mass surveillance, those of the surveillers and those of the surveilled. Blending in can give you a kind of power in 2014. Top: Flyer for "#SpringTraining on Friday: Dress To Blend," March 30, 2012. #2. Actually, their real real proposal could be understood as a kind of analogy between sex and labor. #3. #4. #4a.
Tariq Krim : "La France a besoin d'un choc de numérisation" Né à Paris il y a 41 ans, Tariq Krim est le fondateur des start-up Netvibes et Jolicloud. Il n'a jamais eu peur de défier Google sur son propre terrain. Dès 2007, il a été repéré par la prestigieuse MIT Technology Review. Le Point : Pourquoi vous intéressez-vous aux développeurs ? Tariq Krim : Aujourd'hui, tout est ou sera logiciel. Et en France ? La France, malheureusement, n'a jamais su valoriser sa communauté de développeurs. Pouvez-vous nous donner quelques exemples ? Ils sont tellement nombreux ! Pourquoi la France, qui était à l'origine du Minitel, n'a-t-elle pas réussi à devenir une grande nation numérique ? Parce que la France n'a eu aucune vision industrielle du numérique. Cela a continué ensuite ? Hélas, oui, l'absence totale d'investissements dans les plateformes internet, toujours considérées par certaines élites comme un gadget, a laissé le champ libre à Google, Apple et Facebook pour dominer le marché du cloud et héberger toutes nos données personnelles.
10 Ways to Boost Creativity for Design Professionals Have you ever wondered how an architect comes up with an award-winning building design or a fashion designer creates a fashion-forward line of clothing that everyone wants? Creativity is at the heart of all design and seeking the inspiration to boost that creativity can sometimes be a challenge. In some ways, we are all design professionals. You don’t have to design an automobile, write a novel, or sculpt a gorgeous sculpture to be a design professional. Everyday we all embark on tasks that require us to think, dream, collaborate in our head with our own voices, and get inspired to be creative in everyday life. 1. For many designers the ability to find a new place to seek creativity can often be a challenge. Take a walk to a new destination for new ideas 2. Whether animate or inanimate objects inspire you, nature has the entire spectrum wrapped up into an ever-changing landscape. 3. If you are a designer and are in a rut for finding creativity, take a look at your home office. 4. 5. 6.
Download All 36 of Jan Vermeer's Beautifully Rare Paintings (Most in Brilliant High Resolution) Imagine the scene: you uncover a painting stored away in the closet of an elderly relative's home, coated in a blanket of dust so thick you can hardly make out anything but more dust underneath. You slide it out, begin to carefully brush it off, and find two piercing eyes peering out at you. You brush away more dust, you are covered in it, and the image slowly reveals itself: a stunning oil painting of a young woman in a blue headdress and gold tunic, her red lips parted slightly in an enigmatic, over the shoulder glance. You have just discovered Johannes (or Jan) Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, the so-called "Dutch Mona Lisa." This mostly fictional anecdote is meant to illustrate just how much Vermeer's fortunes—or rather those of the owners of his paintings—have risen since the late 19th century. Though Vermeer himself achieved modest fame during his own lifetime in his hometown of Delft and in The Hague, he died in debt in 1675, and was subsequently forgotten. Related Content: