Category: Museums
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Brooklyn Museum on Google Art Project
The Brooklyn Museum, as I reported back in 2010, is a terrific and underrated museum of art and artifacts that exists in the shadow of larger and better known museums in Manhattan. The museum’s collection contains superb examples of American and European painting, some of which you can now view online in glorious detail by…
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The Painterly Voice, Pennsylvania Impressionism
Pennsylvania Impressionism is a term rather loosely applied to a group of late 19th and early 20th century painters who lived and worked in and around the artist colony that existed at the time in New Hope, Pennsylvania and Lambertville, New Jersey, small towns that straddle either side of the Delaware River north of Philadelphia.…
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Norman Rockwell Museum on Google Art Project
Wow, am I ever enjoying the recently updated Google Art Project (as I reported recently). Despite my own Time Sink Warning, I’ve been pulled back here way too often. I found this morning that among the cornucopia of art from the newly added museums is the Norman Rockwell Museum in Massachusetts. The museum houses not…
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Google Art Project expanded
Google has recently expanded and improved their already amazing Google Art Project, in which they use their Google Maps “Street View” tech to offer virtual tours of museum spaces, and, more importantly, offer beautiful, zoomable high resolution images of great works of art from world class museums. Their recent expansion adds 150 museums and galleries…
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NGA Images
Unlike some museum directors who still seem to feel being miserly with images of their public domain artworks is somehow in their interest (perhaps under the assumption that allowing even a few high-res images onto the web will steal the museum’s soul and capture it inside the magic picture making box), savvy museum directors are…
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Met Museum’s American Wing reopens
The American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which has been undergoing extensive renovations, reopened this week, with a revitalized showcase for one of the best and most extensive collections of American art in the country. For those who can’t visit in person, I’ll take the opportunity to point out again…