AAU Library Blog

The International Festival of Photojournalism is happening right now in Perpignan, France! Perpignan is very near the Mediterranean Sea on the Southern Coast of France. It looks very inviting! Per the website:

Welcome to Visa pour l’Image, the premier International Festival of Photojournalism held in Perpignan, France. This festival is a unique event where you can [...]

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The SFMOMA art museum in San Francisco has created a “visual browsing” tool called the ArtScope that allows users to wander through over 4,000 images from the museum’s collection. Use ArtScope to discover images by browsing or by searching for specific images using keywords such as artists’ names or titles of artworks. I keyword searched [...]

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TinEye is a visual search engine that searches for images the way search engines like Google search for words or tags. By uploading an image or typing in a URL that contains the image you want to search, TinEye can retrieve thousands of images that exactly match the image you are searching for. You can [...]

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Don’t miss the Max Klinger exhibit at the Legion of Honor. It will be on display until July 5th 2009. The Legion of Honor is located in Lincoln Park near 34th Ave and Clement Street and has beautiful views of San Francisco Bay. With this great weather we are having, why not make a day [...]

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There is an interesting question and answer article with Luca Missoni about three Missoni exhibits currently on display in Madrid, Spain on Interview Magazine’s website. It is under the Blogs tab on the website. To get there, go to the library website (http://library.academyart.edu) and select the “Magazines” quick link from the home page. From there [...]

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Communication Arts is a magazine many students use, and more should know about.  Anyone with an interest in advertising, illustration, graphic design, photography, multimedia communications, and computer arts/new media should be aware of it. January through June of every year, it covers multiple fields, and then from July through December it features the best of [...]

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If you haven’t already heard,  it’s fashion week in New York City! Check out the WWD database on on the library website for insider updates. Also, check the NY Times Fashion BlogImage credit: Lucas Jackson/Reuters

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Check out the new words that made it into the Merriam-Webster Dictionary this year!
http://tinyurl.com/6r85f5
(The article was on SFGate.com in case the link expires.)

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The library is currently trying out some terrific databases on a short term basis. Find a biography of someone, search for articles on technology and science, get an image of an artwork, or do all of the above with one search. (For you library geeks, it even has library literature!) Go to [...]

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April has been National Poetry Month and it’s almost over, but here are some interesting things you can check out anytime.
A poet and soldier from Michigan who is stationed in Iraq has begun a blog describing his experiences. It’s well written and is fascinating to read. It’s part memoir, part travelogue, part life-during-wartime. [...]

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