Archive for August, 2007

Panopticon September meeting

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Panopticon will have its first meeting of the fall semester on Thursday, Sept. 21st, 5:30-6pm in the GSLIS lounge. This is the brief time between classes, so feel free to bring your dinner. We will discuss some upcoming events including an art walk, an exhibition and the ARLIS/NE meeting at Yale (see post below). Rachel Resnik from Art Libraries Society, New England Chapter (ARLIS/NE) will talk about the organization and be available to answer questions and register those who are interested.

This is a lot to cram into half and hour, but I think we can do it! See you there.

ARLIS/NE announces meeting at Yale, 9/21/2007

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Art Libraries Society New England chapter will be holding a meeting at Yale on Friday, Sept. 21st. Panopticon is hoping to organize some possible ride sharing. If you’re interested in either offering or accepting a ride, the details will be discussed at our first meeting, Sept. 13th, 5:30-6pm in the GSLIS lounge.

Here are the details for the meeting at Yale:

The ARLIS New England Fall Meeting will be on Friday, September 21, 2007
in the meeting room of the Sterling Library at Yale University. The
program will consist of a panel about the future of scholarly publishing
in art and art history, and the speakers will be Hilary Ballon,
Professor of Art History at Columbia University and co-author with
Mariet Westermann of Art History and Its Publications in the Electronic
Age (http://cnx.org/content/col10376/latest/) and Patricia Fidler, publisher for Art and Architecture editor at Yale
University Press.

SCHEDULE:

9 Coffee and registration

10:00 Business meeting for ARLIS/NE

11:00 Panel, questions and discussion; welcome by Allen Townsend, new
director of Yale Art Libraries

12:30 Lunch-on your own; list of restaurants will be provided

2:00 Self-guided tours of the Center for British Art, the Yale Art
Gallery, and the Yale Campus, and guided tours of the Beinecke (limit
15), Yale Special Collections (limit 15) and library of Center for
British Art (limit 15)

RSVP by September 14 (the sooner the better) to
michael.s.young@uconn.edu ; please specify which of the limited
enrollment tours you would prefer.

Directions: http://www.library.yale.edu/libraries/smldirect.html

Parking: http://www.library.yale.edu/libraries/smldirect.html#dparking

Please join us for what promises to be a fascinating, enjoyable and
gratis event!

Special thanks to Laura Tatum and Hannah Bennett of Yale University
Libraries for their help in making this event possible.

Career Panel podcast available to download

Friday, August 31st, 2007

On July 17, 2007 ARLIS New England and Panopticon hosted an Art Libraries Career Panel that brought together top-notch professionals in the field to discuss the paths they chose to get to where they are today. Invaluable job-seeking advice was shared in a candid and sincere manner with time for Q & A at the end. Well worth a listen!

http://gslis.simmons.edu/podcasts/index.php?cat=LISCareers

Getty Museum To Return Antiquities To Italy

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

The repatriation of works of art was a hot topic on the LIS 446 – Art Documentation blog this summer and I just came across a great article in the LA Times:

The return of antiquities a blow to Getty

Forty disputed artworks that are hallmarks of the museum’s collection will be returned to Italy in end to a long legal fight.

By Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino
Special to The Times

August 2, 2007

The J. Paul Getty Museum’s agreement Wednesday to return 40 disputed antiquities to Italy brings to a close a cultural and legal fight that has dogged the institution for decades. But it comes at a high price, claiming some of the finest pieces in the Getty’s collection.

After months of impasse, the breakthrough came with a flurry of faxes late Tuesday. Of the 46 pieces Italy had demanded, the museum agreed to send back its signature statue of Aphrodite, 10 other masterpieces and more than two dozen other important vases and sculptures.

The objects are expected to be taken off display in the fall, museum officials said, and returned to Italy by the end of the year. The exception is the Aphrodite statue, which will remain at Getty Villa, the Getty’s recently renovated antiquities museum near Malibu, until December 2010.

Italian Culture Minister Francesco Rutelli, speaking to reporters Wednesday evening at the Parliament, where he was attending to other business, said the deal with the Getty was “an agreement of historic value.”

Getty Museum Director Michael Brand also welcomed the accord, which came after two years of often-rocky negotiations.

Click here to read the rest.