Visual Connections Blog

Ordinary Pictures

March 9, 2016

It could be argued that, ever since Andy Warhol intrigued and scandalized (yes: scandalized, at the time) art audiences in the 60s with the conceit of pop culture regurgitations of mass market products (or, if one is to be entirely precise, when Marcel Duchamp’s ‘found’ urinal named “R.Mutt” outraged the Society of Independent Artists in …


Open Content from the Getty (not THAT Getty)

August 21, 2013

The J. Paul Getty Museum, in Southern California is the home of a huge collection of art at its two locations. Earlier this month, they began offering high resolution downloads of thousands of images from the collection, free to use, modify, and publish through their Search Gateway. The Getty is following the lead of a …