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Google ART Project – zoom in at a billion pixels plus

By Mary | Published: April 5, 2012
Hany Armanious, Split Fountain 2009, ©Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, http://g.co/artproject/h3nr, Retrieved April 5 2012     Google has expanded its Art Project to incorporate 30,000 high resolution images from 155 institutions worldwide. Indeed Google Art Project is no replacement for the 1 million images available to download via ARTstor, but is does have some merits [...]
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Royal College of Art Makes Alumni Collections Publicly Available

By Mary | Published: June 21, 2011
Two of the Royal College of Art’s most important collections have been made available to the general public for the first time through a new digitisation project which is accessible through the Visual Arts Data Service (VADS). The Record of Student Work http://www.vads.ac.uk/collections/RCAROSW  is a rare collection, containing over 30,000 slides of student work, which [...]
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