Denver History Minute videos on Youtube

I've discovered these short, informative videos from The City of Denver's YouTube channel!  The Denver Public Library is credited as the source for the images.

Here's a link to one about the Brown Palace!

The Public Domain Review

The Public Domain Review, a project of the Open Knowledge Foundation, is a fascinating resource!



Moose, "from the Austrian painter Aloys Zötl’s Bestiarium, a series of exquisite paintings of various animals undertaken from 1831 through until his death in 1887. He was relatively unknown until, decades after his death, his work was 're-discovered' by surrealist André Breton..."



The Public Domain Review publishes articles which focus on works old enough to have entered the pubic domain and which are available online in openly-licensed digitised form. In general, we encourage contributions which highlight material at the more unorthodox end of the cultural spectrum – curiosities, obscure theories, strange inventions, and so on. If on a well-known figure then we tend to favour an unusual angle or a focus on lesser known works. As well as pieces which focus on particular works, we also welcome articles with a broader historical focus, though they should be closely aligned with interesting material to which we can link.

Recent articles include: Still Booking on De Quincy's Mail-Coach, and The Forgotten Tales of the Brothers Grimm.  The review also "collects" public domain images, film, audio, and text, providing links to other resources as well.



Frontispiece and title-page of the of the 1819 edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen illustrated by Ludwig Emil Grimm, younger brother to Jacob and Wilhelm. This second edition was the first to be illustrated and the first to omit texts found in the first – Source.





Temperantia | ARTtube

Temperantia | ARTtube

One of many awesome videos on this multi-media site from the Netherlands!  

It features the Print Room at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.

Mattress Factory, a museum in Pittsburgh

I ran across a really great museum on the internet recently: The Mattress Factory, which describes itself:

"The Mattress Factory is a museum of contemporary art that presents art you can get into — room-sized environments, created by in-residence artists. Located in the historic Mexican War Streets of Pittsburgh’s North Side since 1977, the Mattress Factory is one of few museums of its kind anywhere."

This piece by Sarah Oppenheimer is called 610-3356 and is an actual hole in the floor of one of the galleries.  It connects to a window in a gallery below, providing a view out that window.

The Mattress Factory also has a permanent exhibition of its own visitors called MF iConfess, a "confessional-like" structure in the museum lobby where visitors answer the question "What does the Mattress Factory mean to you?" (and other things!). 

One of the current exhibitions is called Sites of Passage which documents the performance artist Tavia La Follette's participation in an Artists Residency program in Egypt in the summer 2010.  

During her residency, she started a project called Firefly Tunnels, which she describes as "metaphorical passageways for the exchange of ideas through the language of Performance Art."   The multimedia collaboration project involves artists from Egypt and the United States and includes some fascinating images.