What do we think about Yale scrapping their art history survey course? Is that even what this article describes?
A great article celebrating the open access policy at Taiwan’s National Palace Museum, and, from the National Museum of American History, a lovely example of a museum resisting the call for perfection before publishing collection records.
A really interesting resource of historical photography of China, put together by the University of Bristol: https://www.hpcbristol.net/
Eagerly awaiting the digital publication related to the upcoming exhibition: Exquisite Patterns: Japanese Textile Design, at the British Library.
![Front cover of Ayanishiki / [henshūsha Nishijin Orimonokan] digitized by the British Library](https://i0.wp.com/visualresources.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/623/2020/02/vdc_100096798727.0x000001.jpg?resize=213%2C300&ssl=1)
Like the Georgia O’Keefe Museum, and the Finnish National Gallery, the searching, faceting and presentation of these collections is really changing!
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art which has led them (Watson Library and the Museum Archives) to digitize the records of Francis Henry Taylor, the 5th director of the museum from 1940-1955. These records make for fascinating reading, especially those concerned with the wartime safety of artworks.