- The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has acquired the earliest known photograph of U.S. President John Quincy Adams. [via Art Fix Daily]
- For the last 3 decades, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics has amassed 100 years of protest art from around the world. [via AIGA]
- Related, how museum curators are collecting history as it happens, including those at our own National Museum of African American History and Culture. [via NY Times]
- The Internet Archive is taking advantage of the "Library Public Domain" to distribute books online that were originally published between 1923 to 1941 and are not being actively sold! [via IA Blog]
- SAA's recap of last week's #AskAnArchivist.
- A machine learning automated transcription tool, Deepgram, is now available to everyone. [via Tech Crunch]
- How your brain responds to art. [via Open Culture]
- UC Berkley and the National Science Foundation, are employing optical scanning to restore recordings of indigenous cultures. [via Hyperallergic]
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