Digitization Projects: “Alexander Calder’s Expansive Archive Is Digitised in a New Platform”
From The Art Newspaper:
Over the past last three years, a small team of archivists at the Calder Foundation in New York have worked to digitise thousands of materials related to the artist’s catalogued works as well as personal photographs, documents, and publications.
Their efforts are being released today on an encyclopaedic digital platform that includes extensive databases as well as editorialised content, allowing Calder’s work and history to be “accessible to thousands of people instead of dozens of people”, says Alexander S.C. Rower, the president of the foundation and the artist’s grandson.
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