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Detail from the “unswept floor” mosaic made by Heraclitus, showing a mouse eating a walnut. 2nd century CE, now on display at the Vatican Museums.

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Congratulations to former Art Library Assistant Shaun Midanik!

2024 Article Prize : Association of Print Scholars Shaun Midanik (doctoral candidate in the Department of Art at the University of Toronto) has been awarded the 2024 Schulman and Bullard Article Prize. Now in its tenth year, this award is given by the Association of Print Scholars (APS) to an article published by an early-career scholar that feature...

There's a hard-copy catalogue of this fine cultural institution in the Art History Library. Come and look at it and laugh (reference only, mind), now that we are back to regular hours!

An inside look at how the Museum of Bad Art is made | ART inc. What is bad art? Michael Frank and Louise Reilly Sacco embrace bad art, at the aptly named Museum of Bad Art in Dorchester. Explore their vast collection of ...

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The New York Public Library Presents an Archive of 860,000 Historical Images: Download Medieval Manuscripts, Japanese Prints, William Blake Illustrations & More Back when we last featured the New York Public Library's digital collections in 2016, they contained about 160,000 high-resolution images from various historical periods. This seemed like a fairly vast archive at the time, but in the years since, that number has grown to more than 860,000.

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One of Paris’ most popular attractions is closing for five years | CNN

US$67m History of the Black People becomes Basquiat's 4th most expensive painting sold at auction | Auctions News | THE VALUE | Art News Other Record-Breaking Lots:

Bobcat seen using Highway 17 wildlife crossing hours after it opens Pathway runs under all 4 lanes to prevent roadkill at Laurel Curve.

Oxford exhibition unearths the fascinating story of Minoan culture and its discovery Ashmolean Museum show will reveal how the excavations of its former keeper 100 years ago helped popularise a Minoan world of mythological minotaurs and labyrinths

Photographing the Dark: Nadar’s Descent into the Paris Catacombs Today the Paris Catacombs are illuminated by electric lights and friendly guides. But when Félix Nadar descended into this “empire of death” in the 1860s artificial lighting was still in its infancy: the pioneering photographer had to face the quandary of how to take photographs in the subterra...

Taq kasra or Iwan al-Madain, and it is the largest arch in the world built of bricks Without the use of supports or armament in its construction It is located in Al-Madaen District, near the Iraqi capital, Baghdad and It was built in the sixth century AD and This great building is considered one of the wonders of architecture throughout history.

Vienna’s Albertina Museum Puts 150,000 Digitized Artworks Into the Public Domain: Klimt, Munch, Dürer, and More Though it may not figure prominently into the average whirlwind Eurail trip across the continent, Vienna's role in the development of European culture as we know it can hardly be overstated.

RM, the leader of BTS, is bringing his tremendous influence from pop music to the art world by championing the canonical artists of South Korea. When surrounded by the work of deceased greats, he says, "I feel like they're watching me."
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The Art Library owns "The Robert Welsh Collection of Books on Mondrian". Much of it is not in the cataogue.

Buitengebieden on Twitter “This artwork.. 😏”

The Book of St Albans, One of the Finest Medieval Manuscripts, Gets Digitized and Put Online This past month, on the eve of the June 22nd feast of St Alban, the library of Trinity College Dublin announced that it had digitized the '13th century masterpiece' the Book of St Alban, a richly illustrated manuscript that 'features 54 individual works of medieval art and has fascinated readers acr...

The Met’s New Show Dispels The Myth of White Greek Sculpture In Blaze Of Color “Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color” is on view now through April 2023.

Jade Montserrat: The Gutai Collective Taught Me How to Connect to My Materials The British artist reflects on what Challenging Mud showed her about the messy business of art.

Piet Mondrian and the six lines that made a masterpiece A 1922 painting by Piet Mondrian challenged art history, defining a new era, writes Deborah Nicholls-Lee.

Amazing!

General Idea’s AA Bronson is donating a massive collection of books (3,500 to be exact) to the National Gallery of Canada

The books will be housed in the recently renamed “General Idea Reading Room” at the NGC Library and Archives. Alongside the Art Metropole Collection and General Idea Fonds, the AA Bronson Collection includes:



Yoko Ono, Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions with an introduction by John Lennon. Two versions: 1970 and 1971.

Wyndham Lewis, BLAST: a complete set, 1914.

Barbara Bloom: Pl***oy Volume XLI, No. 1 January 1994. Braille Edition, Part 1 of 5 Parts 1994.

Editions 5,6,7 of GAYHOUSE featuring Elijah Burgher, Linder, and Jean-Michel Wicker, 2012 - 2013

Jürgen Becker, Wolf Vostell, Happenings, 1965

Multiple editions of If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, featuring Tanja Baudoin, Frederique Bergholtz, Vivian Ziherl, Gerry Bibby, Sara van der Heide, Snejanka Mihaylova, Emily Roysdon, Grant Waterson, Jacob Korczynski, Gregg Bordowitz, Louise Lawler 2013 - 2014

Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto, 1968, 1970

Wolfgang Tillmans, Conor Donlon, 2016

General Idea self-portrait, 1980.

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