Breaking news: The Getty has just sent me its press release detailing what it yesterday called its “very good news” that it had “worked hard to make…possible,” regarding the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), a premier art-history resource.
The “solution” to the problem posed by its withdrawal of financial support for maintaining and updating the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) is to post the existing research database on its website, to be made available at no charge to the public. You can find it here.
But the main problem for scholars has not been solved. The press release informs us:
The Getty has been searching for partners to continue the production and distribution of BHA. This process has been complicated, and with no suitable arrangement immediately available, the Getty decided to act on its commitment to the scholarly community by providing access to BHA directly from its own Web site.
So this is, in a sense, “the end of art history,” as I called it: The bucks and updates stop here.