Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Museums

  • Google Art Project

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    Wow. There are times I just want to hug the internet, and say “I love you Internet!“. Google, that monolithic giant of search, advertising, maps, stats and online software, whose offerings and initiatives have ranged from the amazing (search, maps) to the not-so wonderful (privacy issues), has spun off a new initiative for which I…

  • The Indianapolis Museum of Art

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    I’ve never been to Indiana, let alone to the Indianapolis Museum of Art, so this is not a first person account. It is rather the happy result of one of my art browsing habits, using the Museum Listing feature of the Athenaeum online art resource to browse a skimming of various museums’ collections (see my…

  • The Frick Collection

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    The Frick Collection is a relatively small museum in New York, housed in the former mansion of Henry Clay Frick, and displaying the artworks collected by him and his daughter, Helen Clay Frick. The collection, though not as extensive as those of larger museums, has the density of an expensive fruitcake, with so many yummy…

  • Museum Day 2010

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    Museum admission, in case you hadn’t noticed, has kept pace with the rising cost of everything, if not outpacing it significantly in recent years. It can be daunting for some, and can discourage people from investigating museums they don’t already patronize. Smithsonian magazine, an offshoot of the venerable group of cultural institutions in the U.S.…

  • The Brooklyn Museum

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    It has often been pointed out that the borough of Brooklyn, if it were not part of New York City, would stand on its own as one of the largest metropolitan areas in the U.S., perhaps 4th or 5th largest. Like most American cities of that size, Brooklyn has a world class art museum. Unlike…

  • Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

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    The website of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is large and sprawling and full of amazing stuff, much like the museum itself. Also like the physical museum, wandering around and exploring is often rewarded with unexpected delights and treasures. One of the treasures on the Met’s website is the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.…