Deena Engel, Clinical Professor, Department of Computer Science, New York University and Glenn Wharton, Clinical Professor, Museum Studies, New York University will present the Artist Archives Initiative at New York University, a collaboration to develop public resources about contemporary artists beginning with David Wojnarowicz and Joan Jonas.…[Read more]

Please join us for a lecture sponsored by The Frick Collection’s Digital Art History Lab on Thursday, December 6th from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.:

“The Watermark Identification in Rembrandt’s Etchings (WIRE) Project at Cornell Examines The Frick Collection’s Rembrandt Prints” by C. Richard Johnson, Jr., Fellow in Computational Arts and Humanities at the J…[Read more]

From basic but powerful data analysis and clean-up, to reconciliation with open datasets like Wikidata and the Getty Vocabularies, OpenRefine is a powerful tool for a wide variety of researchers across the spectrum of disciplines. In this two-part workshop, we’ll cover the basic features and functionalities of OpenRefine, with a focus on data c…[Read more]

On Thursday, April 12, 2018, from 2:00 p.m. to 6:40 p.m. The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library will be hosting a symposium exploring the use of computer vision technologies for art-historical research. This event is bringing together professionals from the fields of computer science, business, and art history to identify the precise…[Read more]

Once again, the Sotheby Research Institute is sponsoring a research award for students writing on the subjects of art collecting or the art market: visit http://www.sothebysinstitute.com/news-and-events/news/call-for-student-paper-submissions-arlis-award/ for more information. Please be aware that any paper written on this topic in this calendar…[Read more]

Please join us at The Frick Collection on Tuesday, October 17 for a lecture at 4 p.m. by Dr. Paul Jaskot, Professor of Art History and Director of the Wired! Lab, Duke University. Prof. Jaskot’s presentation will address how Nazi perpetrators of the Holocaust thought of their building projects and, conversely, how victims experienced these o…[Read more]

Please join the Digital Art History Lab at The Frick Collection for its spring lecture:

“Using Computed Weave Maps to Gain Art-Historical Insight from Vermeer’s Canvases”
Dr. C. Richard Johnson, Jr., Cornell University
Tuesday, May 2, 2017 at 4 p.m.

The Thread Count Automation Project (TCAP) launched by Professor Johnson in 2007 discovered…[Read more]

On Friday, November 18th at 4 p.m., Henrietta Miers, a recent graduate of Duke University’s recently established Historical and Cultural Visualization program, will present her thesis project “Sixteenth-Century Ceiling Painting in Venetian Churches at a Time of Religious Reform” as a model for digital art history projects, discuss the software and…[Read more]

Please join us this Thursday, October 27th for the lecture “Painting Province: A Statistical Analysis of Rural Imagery in Nineteenth-Century French Painting” presented by Diana Greenwald. Diana is a research assistant at the Institute of New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School and D.Phil Candidate in Economic and Social History at Wad…[Read more]

“Painting Province: A Statistical Analysis of Rural Imagery in Nineteenth-Century French Painting”
Diana Greenwald, Research Assistant, Institute of New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School and D.Phil Candidate in Economic and Social History at Wadham College, University of Oxford
Thursday, October 27, 2016

Throughout the nineteenth…[Read more]

“The Art of Seeing in the Digital Age: Aesthetics at the Intersection of Art and Science”
Emily L. Spratt, PhD Candidate, Princeton University
The Frick Collection, 1 East 70th Street, New York, New York
Tuesday, May 10, 2016, 4 – 5 p.m.

This presentation will explore the use of vision technology for the analysis of art and its philo…[Read more]