Art and Art History News and Writing | Jan 25 2013 Katrina Grant Ben Eltham in Crikey with good news for people in, or aspiring to, the creative industries. ‘New census data on Australia’s cultural and creative industries allows us to peer inside a dynamic sector for the first time in five years. And...
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News and Writing on Art and Art History | 27th April Katrina Grant The reading habits of medieval people have been studied by Dr Kathryn Rudy, of St Andrews University, by looking at the dirt marks on pages. Fancy a touch of art history trainspotting? Bendor Grosvenor is asking his readers spot identifiable ‘unknown...
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Recent News and Writing on Art and Art History Katrina Grant The second version of the Google Art project was launched last week, mostly to acclaim. Six Australian galleries have joined the project, which allows you to both take a Google Street view type walk through a collection as well as zoom up close...
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Recent News and Writing about Art and Art History Katrina Grant Photos in colour from early twentieth-century Russia by photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii who took thousands of vividly coloured photographs of the last days of the Russian Empire. In a move that is both bizarre and a sign of the times in particular for...
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News and Writing about Art and Art History | March 16th 2012 Katrina Grant The big art history news this week has been Maurizio Seracini’s announcement that his team drilling through a Vasari (BBC with video) in search of Leonardo’s ‘Battle of Anghiari’ fresco have found some flecks of paint (Guardian). The news has excited media outlets...
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News and Writing and Art and Art History | March 9th Katrina Grant An exhibition of the work of Johann Zoffany has opened in London reviews here and here. After the British people and various organisations stump up 45 million pounds to keep Titian’s Diana and Callisto in the UK Catherine Bennet asks whether...
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Recent News and Writing about Art and Art History | February 10 News and Opinion The Art Gallery of New South Wales appoints Dr Michael Brand as director to replace Edmund Capon who left last year - our post, in The Sydney Morning Herald and audio of an interview on Radio National “Let the...
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Recent writing about Art and Art History The other Vitruvian man - Smithsonian magazine article on a recently discovered 15th century version of Vitruvius’s Universal Man JISC digitisation - the problem of studying art history and images on the web and why words are the answer. Academics warn of damage to Aboriginal rock art, including...
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A round up of art and art history in the news over the past week: The Art Newspaper reports on the debate over whether to ‘conserve’ or repaint the Keith Haring mural in Collingwood. Stuart Kelly takes aim at scientists study of at art appreciation - Art and Science don’t mix The Met in New York hires...
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Recent writing on Art and Art History News Links of interest from the past two weeks: The debate over the Louvre’s cleaning of Leonardo’s ‘Virgin and Child With Saint Anne’ has generated a number of articles - the most in depth from the New York Times with others from The Guardian and the BBC....
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