Description: A graphic designer's delight — a new exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt explores color perception. [via Smithsonian Libraries]33 museums from 7 countries, including our own Smithsonian Archives of American Art, have produced the largest collection of Frida Kahlo art and ephemera with Google Arts & Culture. [via Remezcla]A key figure in LGBQT activism who organized the first pride
Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
Description: It’s an old fashioned card catalogue full of jokes! The National Museum of American History gives insight into Phyllis Diller’s “gag file”—50,000 annotated jokes featured in a new exhibition at the museum. How are institutions preserving born digital art? Here’s an article about Rhizome’s ArtBase—an archive of digital artworks [via the National Digital Information
Description: Marines are investigating a possible case of mistaken identity in the iconic WWII Iwo Jima photo. [via NPR]The little known history behind Cinco de Mayo. [via Smithsonian Magazine]A short film on the Smithsonian's incredible whale skeleton collection. [via Hakai Magazine]The Prelinger Archives has published 6600 public domain films to the Internet Archive! [via Open Culture]A
Description: Art Deco beetles and butterflies from Smithsonian Libraries. [via Hyperallergic]Depression-era faces lost to history by an editor's hold punch. [via PetaPixel]A new online archive: the Digital Transgender Archive. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The Photographers' Identities Catalog, a collection of biographical data for over 115,000 photographers, studios, etc. [via NYPL LABS]A new
Description: N.G. Morrison in section of new steel bookstacks in library at east end of Great Hall in the Smithsonian Institution Building, or Castle, November 21, 1914, SIA RU000095, SIA_000095_B37A_F10_003.
Description: Archives pay tribute to Gene Wilder. [via University of Iowa Libraries]A behind-the-scenes look at the Academy Film Archives' efforts to save historic films...and the task is enormous. [via NY Times]The director who's making history on 9/24 with the opening of our National Museum of African American History and Culture, Lonnie Bunch. [via Smithsonian Magazine]Speaking of the
Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.