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Daily Alpine

@dailyalpine.com

Private donation adds rare Klimt photographs to foundation collection #artresearch #GustavKlimt #Vienna

Private donation adds rare Klimt photographs to foundation collection

A private donation has given Vienna’s Klimt Foundation, a non-profit research institution, previously unknown photographs documenting Gustav Klimt’s early work, ORF reported Wednesday. The photographs date from 1883 to 1891 and include commissioned decorative paintings by the Künstler-Compagnie, …

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October 28, 2026 at 10:01 AM

ICPSR

@icpsr.bsky.social

Creative Workforce in Focus: Explore arts and cultural employment with the 2024 & 2025 CPS Annual Social and Economic Supplement. Study artists, cultural workers, and the creative economy: https://myumi.ch/8JqdR #artresearch Institute for Social Research (ISR) - University of Michigan #nadacArts

New data release: “Creative Workforce in Focus—Annual Social and Economic Supplement Current Population Survey, 2024–2025,” with
camera illustration and National Endowment for the Arts and National Archive of Data on Arts & Culture logos.

October 15, 2026 at 2:45 PM

A.G.

@antisignal.bsky.social

Historiotheque v1.1.0 is live — the Source, three weeks on: CONSTITUTION, studio logs, governance, and the full Official Releases archive (2016–2026). Versioned, citable, public. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #ArtResearch #OpenScience #CulturalSoftware

Historiotheque/Historiotheque

The operation root of the Historiotheque — an interdisciplinary art-research practice and archive maintained as cultural software. The Source repository: CONSTITUTION.md, studio logs, governance, offi...

doi.org

October 8, 2026 at 6:33 PM

ICPSR

@icpsr.bsky.social

Creative Workforce in Focus: Explore arts and cultural employment with the 2024 & 2025 CPS Annual Social and Economic Supplement. Study artists, cultural workers, and the creative economy: https://myumi.ch/8JqdR #artresearch Institute for Social Research (ISR) - University of Michigan #nadacArts

September 29, 2026 at 11:50 PM

A.G.

@antisignal.bsky.social

This week I wore the Researcher hat and the Coder hat — releases shipped, DOIs minted, the audit trail holds. Now the costume change: the Art Operator returns to the studio. Same beard. Different magic.

Autumn of Joyful Being. 🍂

#ArtResearch #ArtOperator #AutumnOfJoyfulBeing

Black-and-white selfie taken from a low angle: a man with long wavy hair and a full, long graying beard stares directly into the camera, wearing a plain t-shirt indoors.

September 26, 2026 at 1:28 AM

A.G.

@antisignal.bsky.social

First official releases are out. The Historiotheque's Research and DesignConcepts repositories are now at v1.0.0 — versioned, citable, public. The audit trail has begun.

#ArtResearch #OpenScience #CulturalSoftware
github.com/Historiotheq...

Release v1.0.0 · Historiotheque/Research

First release of the Research repository — the scholarly apparatus of the practice. This repo holds the research infrastructure behind the Art Operation: research questions, methods, literature rev...

github.com

September 25, 2026 at 8:10 PM

A.G.

@antisignal.bsky.social

The DesignConcepts release is now archived with a DOI — a permanent, citable record of the design-concepts laboratory. The Research DOI is on its way.

#ArtResearch #OpenScience #DOI
zenodo.org/records/2296...

DesignConcepts v1.0.0 — the design-concepts laboratory of the Historiotheque

First release of the DesignConcepts repository — the design-concepts laboratory of the Historiotheque, where works are designed before they are made. A design concept is the high-dimensional whole of ...

zenodo.org

September 25, 2026 at 8:10 PM

A.G.

@antisignal.bsky.social

For the research behind the video: my open research questions — the Picasso–Braque operation, documentability gaps, art operations and movements:

github.com/Historiotheq...

#artresearch #opendocumentation #cubism

Research/research-questions at main · Historiotheque/Research

Contribute to Historiotheque/Research development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

September 24, 2026 at 11:34 AM

A.G.

@antisignal.bsky.social

THE HISTORIOTHEQUE keeps its books in public. My studio-research center runs a live studio log on GitHub — every session recorded: what changed, what was decided. An art operation with an audit trail, for future stakeholders.
#ArtResearch #OpenScience #OpenSource
github.com/Historiotheq...

GitHub - Historiotheque/Historiotheque: The art operation of A.G. — an art studio, sound design lab, and research practice treated as cultural software. Documented in the light since 2001.

The art operation of A.G. — an art studio, sound design lab, and research practice treated as cultural software. Documented in the light since 2001. - Historiotheque/Historiotheque

github.com

September 23, 2026 at 4:07 PM

emmastarkey.bsky.social

@emmastarkey.bsky.social

archive.a-n.co.uk/blogs/perfor...

#alchemy #catalyst #catalystforchange #epistemology #emmastarkey #art #artresearch #artpractice

September 10, 2026 at 4:21 PM

Jacco Hinke Schouten

@jaccohinke.wsocial.eu

Preparing a new canvas. Sometimes the first layer is not about knowing where the painting will go, but creating enough space for it to reveal itself.

#contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #artresearch #artiststudio

August 24, 2026 at 7:42 AM

Society for Iberian Global Art

@siga.spainculture.us

🔗 Full program & registration: arthist.net/archive/53460

Image Credit: Portrait of Francisco de Goya by Vicente López Portaña, 1826, El Museo del Prado.

#FranciscoDeGoya #Goya #ArtHistory #ArtHistorians #MuseoDelPrado #PradoMuseum #SpanishArt #ArtResearch #ArtHistoryConference

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Young Researchers: On Goya or About Goya? (Madrid, 23 Oct 26)

ITZIAR ARANA COBOS, Madrid. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 23.10.2026, Anmeldeschluss: 19.10.2026

arthist.net

August 24, 2026 at 1:53 PM

Buildscape

@elementdev.bsky.social

Writing-drawing duality

#digitalart #artresearch

March 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM

Rowynn Dumont

@rowynndumont.bsky.social

Honored to have my research on Haitian Vodou Aesthetics & recent exhibitions featured in Anima Mundi Academia! Check out the full zine: iaf-animamundi-art.com/product/anim...

#HaitianVodou #ArtResearch #AnimaMundi #Aesthetics #ArtExhibitions

December 11, 2024 at 4:09 PM

Broken Grey Wires

@brokengreywires.bsky.social

If anyone has the ability to pop some support over, please do. Or share 🤘🏼 it will be VERY appreciated right now.

ko-fi.com/lizzbrady

#community #supportartists #financialsupport #artresearch

March 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM

Pure Tech

@puretech.news

Study: Kids’ drip paintings more like Pollock’s than those of adults #Technology #Other #ArtResearch #ChildCreativity #PollockInfluence

Study: Kids’ drip paintings more like Pollock’s than those of adults

Not everyone appreciates the artistry of Jackson Pollock’s famous drip paintings, with some dismissing them as something any child could create. While Pollock’s work is undeniably more sophisticated...

puretech.news

November 20, 2025 at 7:30 AM

World Eco-Design Organization (WEDO)

@wedo2018.bsky.social

🎨 Welcome to Arts Appreciation!

A new journal dedicated to art, aesthetics, visual culture, design, and interdisciplinary arts studies🖍️
🔗Website: appreciation-arts.com

📖 Read. ✍️ Submit. 🌍 Engage!
#CallForPapers #ArtsAppreciation #ArtResearch

June 2, 2026 at 9:17 AM

MA Research in Hybrid Arts

@mares-ioniogr.bsky.social

🎓 Applications are now open for the MARes in Hybrid Arts 2025–2026 @Ionian University!

🧬 1-year, full-time, research-based
🧪 Online + in-person Winter School
📅 Apply by June 20, 2025
🌐 future.ionio.gr/mares/
#HybridArts #ArtResearch #CallForApplications #MARes #ArtAndScience #PostgraduateStudies

May 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM

ICPSR

@icpsr.bsky.social

How can the arts help communities heal and connect? New NADAC data from One Nation/One Project examine arts participation, social cohesion & wellbeing across 18 U.S. cities. Explore: https://myumi.ch/wwMdW #artresearch @neaarts.bsky.social Institute for Social Research (ISR) - University of Michigan

Collage for a new data release from One Nation/One Project, showing diverse arts and community gatherings with the title “Relationships Between Arts Participation, Social Cohesion, and Wellbeing 2022–2025.”

July 30, 2026 at 8:15 PM

ICPSR

@icpsr.bsky.social

How can the arts help communities heal and connect? New NADAC data from One Nation/One Project examine arts participation, social cohesion & wellbeing across 18 U.S. cities. Explore: https://myumi.ch/wwMdW #artresearch @neaarts.bsky.social Institute for Social Research (ISR) - University of Michigan

July 24, 2026 at 10:05 PM