Foundation Plans Digital Archive for Art and Architecture

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has announced a plan to create a comprehensive digital-slide library of art and architecture for teaching and research.

Although many colleges and museums have begun digitizing images of items in their own art collections, Mellon plans to build a systematic collection of digital materials for teaching a large range of core art-history courses.

"'Core' here doesn't necessarily mean traditional and stuffy," said James L. Shulman, a financial and

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