Voyager is an open-source suite of tools for creating and displaying three-dimensional images. It was developed by the Smithsonian’s Digitization Program Office to serve as their 3D imaging pipeline and is available to the public. Any effort to make 3D cultural heritage images more accessible via open-source tools should be applauded. When t…[Read more]

MoMA Exhibition Spelunker is a portal for exploring the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition history. Originally taken from a large dataset of information from the archives, the company Good Form and Spectacle, transformed MoMA exhibition history from 1929-1989 into a user-friendly portal for deep engagement.

Some forms of exhibition documentation, such as brochures or checklists, are produced in-house and may present bibliographical information in an unconventional fashion, requiring the cataloger to look well beyond the title page or even beyond the publication itself. Exhibition publications often require more use of cataloger’s judgment, and more…[Read more]

Review of Encounters in Video Art in Latin America edited by Elena Shtromberg et al. Issues & Debates. Getty Research Institute, February 2023. 288 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-60606-792-5 (pbk.), $65.00. Reviewed March 2023 by Jenny Le, Library Student Research Assistant, UCLA Library, lenhijenny@g.ucla.edu.

Review of The Story of Architecture by Witold Rybczynski. Yale University Press, November 2022. 360 p. ill. ISBN 9780300246063 (h/c), $40.00. Reviewed March 2023 by Jacob Lackner, Teaching and Learning Librarian, Oxford College of Emory University, Jlackne@emory.edu.

Review of Cold War Camera by Thy Phu et al. Duke University Press, December 2022. 432 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-4780-2319-7 (pbk.), $30.95. Reviewed March 2023 by Isotta Poggi, Associate Curator of Photographs, Getty Research Institute, ipoggi@getty.edu.

Review: African Modernism in America edited by Perrin M. Lathrop. American Federation of Arts, October 2022. 244 p. ill. ISBN 9781885444110 (h/c), $55.00. Reviewed March 2023 by Hillary Veeder, Hillary Veeder, Architecture Librarian, Texas Tech University Libraries, hillary.veeder@ttu.edu.

Review of The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England by Elizabeth Cleland and Adam Eaker. Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2022. 352 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-58839-692-1 (h/c), $65.00. Reviewed March 2023 by Andrea Walton, MA, MLS, krw1@nyu.edu.

Review of Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now edited by Doryun Chong and Mika Yoshitake. Thames & Hudson, February 2023. 400 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-500-02585-7 (h/c), $65.00. Reviewed March 2023 by Michelle Demeter, Head of Undergraduate and Instructional Services, New York University, med15@nyu.edu

Review of Looking Up: The Skyviewing Sculptures of Isamu Noguchi edited by Hafthor Yngvason. Giles, July 2022. 132 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-911282-61-7 (h/c), $44.95. https://gilesltd.com/product/looking-up. Reviewed March 2023 Cory Budden, Reference & Instruction Librarian, University of Maine at Augusta, cory.budden@maine.edu.

Review: Remaking the Exceptional: Tea, Torture, and Reparations: Chicago to Guantánamo edited by Aaron Hughes et al. DePaul Art Museum, 2022. ISBN 978-1-73776-090-0 $50.00. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/R/bo175030441.html. Reviewed March 2023 by Sam Regal, Reference and Instruction Librarian, California Institute of the…[Read more]

Review of Renaissance Secrets: A Lifetime Working with Wall Paintings by Michelangelo, Raphael, and Others at the Vatican by Maurizio De Luca and Jason Cardone. Getty Conservation Institute, February 2023. 140 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-60606-799-4 (pbk.), $35.00.…[Read more]

Book review of Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China edited by Karina H. Corrigan and Stephanie H. Tung. Yale University Press, September 2022. 340 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-26363-3 (h/c), $60.00. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300263633/power-and-perspective. Reviewed March 2023 by Lindsey Reno, Acquisitions and Electronic Resources…[Read more]

Review of Smokehouse Associates by Eric Booker. Yale University Press, December 2022. 258 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-26720-4 (h/c), $55.00. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300267204/smokehouse-associates/. Reviewed March 2023 by Kristen J. Owens, Librarian for African American and Black Diaspora Studies, New York University Libraries, Independent…[Read more]

Book review of Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics by Lisa E. Bloom. Duke University Press, November 2022. 288 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-4780-2324-1 (pbk.), $27.95. https://dukeupress.edu/climate-change-and-the-new-polar-aesthetics. Reviewed March 2023 by Barbara Ann Opar, Librarian for Architecture, Syracuse University Libraries, baopar@syr.edu.

Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook, provides two distinct offerings. The first is a handbook, a how-to guide that could work well as a course text about creating digital scholarship projects in the humanities. The second is a peer-reviewed and cross-reference-able repository of case studies and assignments, which…[Read more]

The Duchamp Research Portal is a free, bilingual, online research tool to discover the life and work of Marcel Duchamp. The portal is the product of seven-year, international collaboration between the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Bibliothèque Kandinsky at Paris’s Centre Georges Pompidou, and the Association of Marcel Duchamp.

Directed by Antoine Petit, Chief Executive Officer of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), OpenBibArt is a western bibliographic database covering art literature published between 1910 and 2007. The vast scope of subjects range from Late Antiquity to the 21st century, represented by 1.2 million records for periodicals, books,…[Read more]

The Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME) is a collaborative, free-access aggregator developed by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), Stanford Libraries, and the Qatar National Library. The platform brings together records from thirty-nine holding institutions related to the Middle East and North Africa.