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www.thisismarktwain.com brings to life the Autobiography of Mark Twain in video slideshows, images, interviews with the editors and other Mark Twain scholars, and audio clips of excerpts from the book. The site takes readers behind the scenes to view materials only available at the Mark Twain Papers of The Bancroft Library. The reader can interact [more...]  Film Quarterly has been publishing substantial, peer-reviewed writing on motion pictures since 1958, earning a reputation as the most authoritative academic film journal in the United States. Its wide array of topics, perspectives, and approaches appeals to film scholars and film buffs alike. And the all-new Filmquarterly.org is now live. There, you can: Read free articles from [more...] Running Fence, Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s outdoor installation in Northern California, stood for just two weeks. Though many people traveled to the isolated farmlands of 1970s Sonoma and Marin Counties to view Running Fence, its short existence ensured that relatively few people saw it in person. Considering Running Fence’s fiery conception, a four-year-long battle in which [more...] Kirk Savage has recently become the seventh University of California Press author to be honored with the prestigious Charles C. Eldredge Prize from the Smithsonian American Art Museum for his book, Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape. The prize, which was first awarded in 1989, is named for [more...] University of California Press title Cezanne’s Other: The Portraits of Hortense, by Susan Sidlauskas, has received the Robert Motherwell Book Award from the Dedalus Foundation, which promotes understanding of modern art and Modernism. The award, which includes a prize of $20,000 for the winning author, goes to publications that demonstrate superb scholarship in the history and [more...] Washington Monument. Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. In awarding the 2010 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art to Kirk Savage, the Smithsonian American Art Museum recognized his book Monument Wars as a “beautifully written and cogently argued book that recounts the creation and [more...] Social documentary photographer Ken Light was featured this week on the New York Times Lens Blog, along with a slideshow of his photographs of Appalachian coal mining towns. These photos, along with residents’ stories and text by Melanie Light, are collected in the book Coal Hollow. The recent disaster that killed 29 people at the Upper [more...] Bill Ivey When most people think about about government funding, the arts are probably not the first thing to come to mind. Arts funding is often shunted aside in favor of other priorities, and indulged at the rare times when there is extra money in the coffers, as Bill Ivey found while serving as chairman [more...] UC Press Journals and JSTOR have combined forces with the Society of Architectural Historians to launch the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Online. In the journal’s online archive, audio, video, 3D models, and other multimedia enhance articles and reviews. You can explore the Roman Forum in 3D, zoom in on a [more...] Mayer Kirshenblatt, the artist whose paintings opened a window onto Jewish life in Poland before the Holocaust, died November 20, 2009 at age 93. Kirshenblatt started painting at age 73 at the urging of his family, who asked him to “paint what you remember”. Over the years he created almost 300 paintings, each an illustrated [more...] |
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