Some of the Canadian Art Library offerings from the Art Canada Institute. ( ART CANADA INSTITUTE )For the past several years, a team of art historians at the Art Canada Institute have been working to close this knowledge gap by telling the story of Canadian art to millions of online readers through a digital platform. But this year, the ACI is changing tacks and embracing old school analog media, with a huge digital-to-print project that will convert 30-something publications from the Canadian Online Art Project into real-life, physical, ink-on-paper books. Since the digital project has been such a success, we wondered: Why the flip to analog? Since Angel’s parents were booksellers (Edwards Books & Art, a small Toronto chain in the 1980s and ’90s that did a brisk trade in coffee table picture books) she has a particular fondness for gorgeous art books.

Source: thestar April 28, 2019 12:56 UTC