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3DBrowser Light Edition

No doubt there are many users seeking a new way to view their own images, video clips, and 3D files. Those persons may wish to take a look at the latest version of the 3D browser which allow them to view high-quality thumbnails and also edit their own images and videos at their leisure. The program also offers a number of other options, such as the ability to create slide shows and stereo images....

https://www.mootools.com/en/software/3dbrowser
500 Years of Italian Dance: Treasures from the Cia Fornaroli Collection

This lovely addition to the expanding universe of web-accessible, digital versions of primary sources, was created by the New York Public Library and includes color lithographs, engravings, and other types of prints documenting the history of dance in Italy, collected by Walter Toscanini (son of the Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini). The collection is named for the younger Toscanini's wife,...

http://web-static.nypl.org/exhibitions/italiandance/index.ht...
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82nd & Fifth

We're about halfway through the Metropolitan Museum's online and ever-changing exhibit, 82nd & Fifth, so it’s a good time to take a look. Taking its name from the Museum's address, 82nd & Fifth is a collaboration between 100 curators from different departments across the Museum and 11 photographers, to produce 2 minute videos presenting "100 works of art that changed the way they see the world."...

https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/now-at-the-met/from-the-dire...
A Dancer’s Journal: Learning to Perform the Dances of Martha Graham

Learning to perform the intricate dances choreographed by the late Martha Graham can be a seemingly indomitable task. To many outside of the field of dance, the process may seem impenetrable. This situation has in part been remedied by the creation of this remarkable website which offers the experiences of Jordy Kandinsky (the newest member of the Martha Dance Graham Company), as she is going...

https://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/multimedia/series/AEMicr...
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A Democracy of Images

In 1983, the Smithsonian American Art Museum began collecting photographs. Today they have over 7000 images and this website offers a wonderful exploration of but a few of their holdings. The title of this collection refers to Walt Whitman's belief that photography was a quintessentially American activity, rooted in everyday people and ordinary things. The visual delights here are divided into...

https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/democracy-images
A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books

In the century after Johannes Gutenberg invented movable type, books and other printed materials began to flourish, and in doing so, many artisans began to decorate such items with marvelous woodcuts. Three centuries after their publication, Lessing J. Rosenwald (the retired chairman of Sears, Roebuck, and Company) acquired many of these masterworks at a sale sponsored by their then owner, C.W....

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/heavenlycraft/
A Journey Through Time

Noted photographer Frans Lanting opens the website dedicated to his most recent ambitious project with these words: "Seven years ago I stood at the tide line of an estuary and began a personal journey through time.� Auspicious words indeed, and this lovely exploration of what he found on this journey takes visitors on a "lyrical interpretation of life on Earth from its earliest beginnings to its...

https://www.annenbergphotospace.org/exhibits/life/
A look back at the 40th anniversary of Woodstock

Greying flower children make pilgrimage to Woodstock 40 years on http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/festivals/article6798424.ece Woodstock wasn't everybody's summer of '69 http://www.lohud.com/article/20090818/COLUMNIST/908180339/-1/SPORTS Why is this Woodstock anniversary so...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/2009/0821
A Nation Emerges: Sixty-five Years of Photography in Mexico

The Getty Research Library at the Getty Institute has over 600 digitized images of Mexico from its special collections by Mexican, American, and European photographers in a multitude of photographic formats. The earliest is from 1857, and these photographic images document the history of the nation from different perspectives. To get acquainted with a timeline of Mexico starting in 1810 and going...

http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/guides_bibliographies/ph...
A Picture of Britain: an exhibition celebrating the British landscape

Take a tour of the British countryside, "from the Scottish Highlands to the South Downs," via this web exhibition from the Tate Online. A Picture of Britain looks at the ways in which the British landscape has inspired artists like John Constable, JMW Turner, LS Lowry, Paul Nash and Richard Long. The Web exhibition features an interactive map, a quiz for you to test your knowledge of various...

https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/picture-britai...
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