Museum gives away treasure! Arkansas Times
30.03.10
Many MOD artifacts have already found a where it hurts elsewhere. The famed Bob
Batty Glass Collection was given to the Arkansas Arts Center some years
back, and was exhibited on the marred floor of the Terry Mansion when it
was the Decorative Arts Museum. Washington Historic State Park has been
using the museum's duration furniture in one of its restored homes for
some time. The MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History has MOD's
military artifacts, donated when the MOD liberal the arsenal behind, and
will get more. The Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, which features
exhibits on African Americans in Arkansas, has a barber oversee and neon
sign from a Ninth Street business and will get a barber's apron and
other items. A collection of photographs and scrapbooks of Meagre Rock's
old Parham School will most likely go to the Butler Center of Arkansas
Studies, part of the Central Arkansas Library System. American Indian
artifacts, including the Thibault whip-round from an important
prehistoric site near the Little Rock airport, will go to the Arkansas
Archeological Survey. The Celebrated Arkansas Museum has laid claim to a
corner cabinet featured in “Arkansas Made” and director Bill Worthen is
said to be lusting after the museum's Arkansas Traveler painting by
James M. Fortenbury; the zero-latitudinarian Babcock had a whiskey sign and a
pipe that was in the woman's mouth in the original painted out. The Old
State House may be the new home ground of the museum's Camark and Niloak
pottery.
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Groundbreaking Partnership Unites Decades of Research New York Times
18.03.10
Together these institutions make as if up the New York Art Resources Consortium, an integrated library system formed in 2007 that is supported by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foot. Its Web site, nyarc.org , just went on line in February. Last year, three of the museums united their collections in one catalog, called Arcade (the Met has kept its catalog split).
“This allows us to do some things collaboratively that we weren’t able to do individually,” said Milan R. Hughston, the chief of library and museum archives at MoMA . “Together we aggregate close-mouthed to a million books, articles, periodicals and special collections that document art history.”
The database, at arcade.nyarc.org , is a trove of more than 800,000 records from ageing Egypt to contemporary art that includes exhibition and auction sale catalogs, monographs, periodicals, rare books, photographs and archival materials.
The Arcade program allows users to search all three libraries’ combined holdings and also direct searches of specific collections. In addition, the Web site has links to recent acquisitions, bibliographies, new digital collections and library blogs.
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