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Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples/1960 to Now

This exhibition from MOMA makes heavy use of Flash animation to present a survey of European art, from the 1960s to the present. As the subtitle states, the focus of the exhibition is printmaking, including posters and silkscreen prints, artists' books, and other multiples, often employing techniques formerly used in the commercial sector, that many artists "borrowed" and began using in the 1960s....

https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2006/eyeoneuro...
Fabric Architecture

Published by the Industrial Fabrics Association International, Fabric Architecture magazine is published bimonthly and is distributed to over 13000 architects working in the field. For those who've never thought about the possibilities and opportunities afforded by this area that straddles the lines between fabrics, design, and architecture, it's quite a find. On this page, users can look through...

https://fabricarchitecturemag.com/
Face-to-Face blog - Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery (NPG)

Online for less than a year, Face-to-Face is written by a team of National Portrait Gallery staff members with diverse responsibilities, from web design to curatorial. The blog is "dedicated to art, history, and the telling of American lives." There are four categories on Face-to-Face: Biography, Events, Exhibitions and News. "Biography" currently features an article series on presidential trivia,...

https://npg.si.edu/blog/
Faith & Form: Selected Calligraphy and Painting from Japanese Religious Traditions

In this interactive exhibit, collectors Sylvan Barnet and William Burto take users by the virtual hand and guide them through Faith & Form, an exhibition at the Freer Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum. The exhibition is based on Japanese art collected by Barnet and Burto, who "have assembled one of the finest collections of Japanese religious art in the West." Once they have launched the...

https://archive.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/faithandform/...
Famous silkscreen by Andy Warhol sold for $12.6 million

Andy Warhol was perhaps best known for his keen interpretations of contemporary post-World War II American culture and Elizabeth Taylor is perhaps best known for her amazing violet eyes and distinguished film roles. Their paths crossed (in a matter of speaking) when Warhol created a vibrant silkscreen of Taylor from a publicity photograph of her taken around the time that she was making the film...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/2005/0513
Farber Gravestone Collection

David Rumsey and his cartographically-minded colleagues have developed a number of excellent online collections of maps and other visual ephemera over the past few years, and this latest resource will be one that visitors will want to peruse at length. This particular collection contains over 13,500 images documenting the various sculptural elements on more than 9000 gravestones. Most of the...

http://www.davidrumsey.com/farber/
Fashion Institute of Technology: Teaching & Learning Resources

Located in New York City, the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) is known for its excellent programs in fashion design, marketing, and related fields. What people may not know is that FIT also has a great collection of materials for teachers, courtesy of its Center for Excellence in Teaching. The site includes sections such as Printable Resources, Syllabus and Student Learning Outcomes, and...

https://www.fitnyc.edu/gateways/employees/faculty-academic-s...
Fashion Plate Collection

There are fashion plates, and then there are the exquisite fashion plates that constitute the University of Washington Libraries digitized collection. The plates were first collected by long-time home economics professor Blanche Payne, who taught at the University from 1927 to 1966. The plates come from leading French, American, and British fashion journals of the 19th and early 20th century and...

https://content.lib.washington.edu/costumehistweb/index.html
Felix de la Concha's Portraits in Conversation

Known for his multidimensional portraits, Felix de la Concha conducted many interviews with the people he portrayed in his artwork. He is also known for his collaborations with his wife, University of Iowa professor Ana Merino. On this site, created by the Iowa Digital Library, users can peruse 50 interviews from his career. Featured on the site "are Spanish-language interviews with some of the...

https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3Afelixdel...
FEMLINK: The International Video Collage

FemLink started out in 2006 in order to recognize a female video artist from each country who would produce a two-minute film around a central them. In 2006 the theme was fragility, and then the artists combined each of the videos into one in order to create a video collage. Visitors interested in viewing the first video can use the link entitled "The Video-Collage Fragility", which is accessible...

http://www.femlink.org/
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