One Hundred Famous Views of Edo at the Brooklyn Museum

I love finding a site that has been on the web for years (it's been five years since I first saw this site) and has remained intact without broken links.

The site for One Hundred Famous Views of Edo at the Brooklyn Museum is quite wonderful. It shows all 118 of the woodblock prints by Utagawa Hiroshige. I know that the title says "One hundred famous views ..." but there are 118 prints on view.

The images can be browsed by season or by keyword, and also by leafing through all the prints. Once you select the method, each print has an accompanying text which explains the meaning of the objects in the image. Clicking on the smaller picture takes you to a larger version, which can then be examined under a magnifying rectangle - there is only one magnifying level.

The text that accompanies the online exhibition is quite good; I especially liked the section on the Woodblock Printmaking Process since facts are covered there that I wouldn't even have thought to be curious about.

Cezanne

Start by mentioning the class at MoMA and how one thing leads to another.

Paul Cezanne page at MoMA, which has a very good essay about him, and links to art, some with audio,

Cezanne and Beyond at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, especially the Chronology section which gives links (how good are they?) to other artists.
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The SmartHistory page for Cezanne starts with his Still Life with Apples, and then goes on to showcase four other of his works. Each of the pages have some links that are unique so it is worthwhile to explore all of them. While I find some of the [speaking during the videos] annoying, the information is quite good. On the first page, while 'Provence' is misspelled in the link, the website it leads to [] at the National Gallery of Art is (explore the site and see what's there)
Meyer Shapiro at Artchive

Maid in Cyberspace

Used to be  Maid in Cyberspace. This link http://www.htmlles.net/2003/e/index.html goes to the 2006 edition which may have some good files.

Latest festival is at  http://www.htmlles.net/2010/ and also might have files, at least history of the festival.

Rediscovering the past at the CBC

I love the CBC! Back in 2007 it made it easier to access its digital archive, although since it is now four years since I started this post, I don't remember how difficult it was before that.

For each audio or video clip, there is accompanying useful textual information and links to other resources, and, most helpful to students who have to figure out the correct way to cite a web page, a 'cite this page' link. Once you copy and paste, all the formatting is done for you.

For instance, I watched a video about Haight-Ashbury. The same page contains text about the clip and the historical context for the film, as well as the above-mentioned resources. The clip is to be cited as:

Haight-Ashbury: The birth of hip.
The CBC Digital Archives Website.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Last updated: June 28, 2005.
http://archives.cbc.ca/society/youth/clips/3156/ [Page consulted on Sept. 24, 2011.]

I added in the links through the titles since the citing mechanism doesn't do that.

I did an advanced search to find the earliest clip and I believe it is this one from 1927. Grating to listen to, but that's how radio sounded in the old days.

Diamond Jubilee broadcast links Canadians.
The CBC Digital Archives Website.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Last updated: June 26, 2008.
http://archives.cbc.ca/society/celebrations/clips/13492/ [Page consulted on Sept. 24, 2011.]

Another feature(?), once I created my own archives, is a personal archives folder. It doesn't seem to work so well, since, while I can save to the folder, it seems to disappear every time I access it. It reappears with saved clips when I create a new folder with the same name, but that is really annoying.

The Archives has its own podcast, Rewind, where you can download whatever clips are listed for the past several months, or subscribe in several different ways. The Archives site is really best experienced, unless you're doing research, by clicking on links and seeing what you find. For instance, I found this television clip from 1955 showing A.Y. Jackson painting. The narration is a bit (okay, a lot) dated but still, it's pretty neat.

Conceptual Art - not very visible Traffic

The most aggravating aspect of the exhibit "Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980" is that it is impossible to find anything on the Web that shows comprehensive, or even more than sketchy, information about the show.  I searched Google using the title of the exhibit, and as far as I can tell, none of the galleries, and there were many, that showed the exhibit, did more than create a very basic website. One link I did find was to a lecture by Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge, who talk about their work, which was shown in the exhibit at Dalhousie Art Gallery.

The Wikipedia entry for Conceptual Art covers mostly American artists, a number of which are represented in the show. I am going to try and find more information about the art that was shown, since I have a copy of the catalogue (not the catalogue that the essay mentioned below appears in) that accompanied the exhibit at three university galleries in Halifax - Dalhousie Art Gallery, MSVU Art Gallery, which has some information and a link to a catalogue essay by Jayne Wark, and St. Mary's Art Gallery. I spent several hours at these wonderful, marvellous, exhibits, and include for now some images of the catalogue (with my own attempt at conceptual art through blacking out some of the text). I'll try and find more information about the artists who were included - I wrote down some of the titles (thank goodness there were lists of the artists represented in each gallery).