Today's post looks at the use of nanotechnology by conservators at George Eastman House to preserve an important daguerreotype collection.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/05/preserving-daguerreotypes-with.html

Posted new edition of All Art Friday.

Today's spotlights are on photographer Aspen Mays, painter and photographer Asli Erel, the "Reading Women" series by performative photographer Carrie Schneider, the nonprofit Museum Computer Network, the huge image library at Pattern in Islamic Art, and a video interview with Jim Dine.

The roundup highlights exhibitions of Karl Stirner's works in steel (James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania), Corrine Whitlatch's glass…

Posted new edition of All Art Friday. Spotlights today: installations at Chateau La Coste, CultureBlocks, digital da Vinci, Fractured Atlas's new Health Care Resources, Dallas's National Center for Arts Research, and artist and innovator Mike Friton (video included).

The roundup highlights Habatat Gallery's international glass invitational, images of the feminine from Latin America at Tucson Museum of Art, the "30 Americans" show at Milwaukee Art Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago's…

Posted new edition of All Art Friday.

Today's spotlights are on a new Romare Bearden app, wall sculptures of sea glass by Jonathan Fuller, New York Public Library's online exhibitions section, the New York City Ballet's Art Series (video included), and a video featuring John Cage watercolors, drawings, and prints.

The roundup highlights exhibitions at Mount Holyoke College Art Museum (Kara Walker prints), International Center of Photography (Roman Vishniac photographs), Utah…

Posted new edition of All Art Friday.

Today's spotlights are on the digital art magazine "Visual Language"; the video "Golden Sea" on painter Makoto Fujimura; the Laib Wax Room at The Phillips Collection in D.C. (video with the artist included); and a process video with Bruce Herman describing working on a panel included in "Qu4rtets".

The roundup highlights exhibitions at Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Agnes Martin paintings and drawings), Maine's Portland Museum of Art…

Today's post features a clip from documentary filmmaker Robert Adanto's "3D: Darkly Digital & Divine", which explores digitization and its influence on photography, manipulation of images and visual truth, and, more generally, our "post-photographic" future.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/04/adantos-3d-darkly-digital-divine.html

Monday Muse looks at "Speleology", a film by photographer Scott Rank and poet and sound artist Duriel Harris, who reads her poem "Speleology":

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/04/monday-muse-poet-sound-artist-duriel.html

Posted new edition of All Art Friday. Today's spotlights are on Artists Network University, Joan Miro Prize winner Roni Horn, Swedish photographer and filmmaker Carl Kleiner's fun tribute to Alexander Calder (video included), wood-chip sculptures, and Shahzia Sikander's animation "The Last Post" (video included).

The roundup highlights exhibitions at Walker Art Center (the group show "Painter Painter"), Japan Society ("The Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints"), Minneapolis Institute of…

Producer, director, and cinematographer Ben Shapiro's fascinating documentary "Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters" is the subject of today's post, which also includes the trailer for the film.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/04/gregory-crewdson-brief-encounters.html

I've posted a new edition of All Art Friday. Today's spotlights are on Elsa Mora's cut-paper sculptures, Fabio Viale's marble "narrative forms", line drawing of Mario Kolaric, the Shakespeare Tumblr, and the Brooklyn Museum's acquisition of work from the arts collective AfriCOBRA. I've included a video about the latter.

The roundup highlights exhibitions at SITE Santa Fe (conceptual, video, performance, and installation art from the 1960s and early 1970s by 60 California…

I've posted a new edition of All Art Friday.

Today's spotlights are on the grand opening of the Washington School of Photography and Capitol Arts Network facilities in Rockville, Maryland; the Art21 Translation Project; painter and sculptor Jennie C. Jones's award of the Joyce Alexander Wein Prize from Studio Museum in Harlem; an interactive Website devoted to Marcel Duchamp; Lower East Side Printshop in New York City; and artists Lam Quang and Kestrel Gates, who design and…

I've posted a new poem, "Behind", for today's photo prompt at Tess Kincaid's Magpie Tales.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/03/behind-poem.html

James Balog, a National Geographic photographer, is an "ice chaser" and the result of his extraordinary multi-year project to document the melting of the Arctic's magnificent glaciers is his feature-length documentary "Chasing Ice". I've posted the trailer for the film and an interview of Balog by Bill Moyers. Prepare to be amazed.…

I've posted a new poem, "If You're a Dreamer, Come In", in response to today's photo prompt at Tess Kincaid's Magpie Tales:

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/03/if-youre-dreamer-come-in-pantoum.html

A new edition of All Art Friday has posted.

Today's spotlights encompass Anna Kaminska's photography, the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, UK Arts in HealthCare, and the short documentary "Erin Shirreff Takes Her Time", part of the Art21 New York Close Up series.

The roundup features exhibitions at Chicago's DePaul Art Museum (Bruce Davidson photographs), Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin (Arnold Newman photographs), Oakland Museum of California…

Posted new edition of All Art Friday.

Today's spotlights are on "The Cloisters", a newly revised book from Yale University Press; Sharon Horvath paintings; Marilyn Henrion's company The Soho Bookie, which publishes exhibition catalogues and art-related books; a dance-art collaboration between Mark Bradford and Benjamin Millepied; and James Turrell's extraordinary "Twilight Epiphany Skyspace" at Rice University. I've included a video about the latter.

The round-up…

Have you ever wondered where a writer obtains historical information or interviews? I began writing regional history long before the advent of the Internet as a feature writer for a weekly newspaper. Searching for the same facts today is much easier if we’re computer literate. Yet nothing beats contact with the people who have stories to share.

During the nine years I wrote for the newspaper, I must have interviewed hundreds of people. My main interest soon became the history…