riographic project in a volume celebrating the work of Thomas F. Mathews, who, as my teacher and mentor, set me on the path of an intellectual adventure that never fails to surprise.1 At the center of this study is a set of Late Antique Egyptian textiles assembled in an album for Dikran Ga rabed Kelekian (1868–1951), an influential collector and art dealer who was a source of historic and archa...

My inquiry examines art's institutional arrangements through the present character of modern and contemporary art museums. This examination is positioned initially with the postmodernist theoretical evaluation of the art museum which argues the rupture of the modernist art episteme signaled the end of the museum and the project of constructing art's history. I limited my inquiry to museums loca...

The application of computer vision on museum collection data is at an experimental stage with predictions that it will grow in significance and use the coming years. This research, based analysis five case studies semi-structured interviews professionals, examined opportunities challenges these technologies, resources funding required, ethical implications arise during initiatives. this paper a...

This paper introduces the Watermark Imaging System (WImSy) which can be used to photograph, document, and study sheets of paper. The WImSy provides surface images, raking light transmitted images paper, all in perfect alignment. We develop algorithms that exploit this alignment by combining several together a process mimics both “surface image removal” technique method “high dynamic range” phot...

The relevance of the article is justified by interest many researchers in problem interaction between ballet and fashion. With help a theoretical analysis literature, Internet sources, illustrative material, author presents an features costumes for production Blue Express, designed Gabrielle Chanel Sergey Diaghilev’s Russian Seasons. also analyzes exposition activities associated with demonstra...