Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Online Museums

  • New Metropolitan Museum of Art website

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    The websites of the world’s great art museums, as well as those for numerous smaller museums, serve as a resource both for visitors to the institution and for those who are interested in viewing and accessing online information about the artworks in the museum’s collections. As someone who routinely scours the web in search of…

  • BBC’s Your Paintings

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    As those of us who haunt museums are keenly aware, but the general public is probably not, most of the world’s artworks are not on view. Some, of course, are in private collections, visible to the public only if on loan to museums or in publications. A great percentage, however, is in museum storage. Another…

  • Hi-res images on Rijksmuseum website

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    One thing I can never seem to get enough of is high resolution images of great art, and it seems like more and more are cropping up each day — one of the little gifts bestowed upon us by the globe spanning lattice of zooming bits we affectionately call the web. Peacay, author of the…

  • 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…

  • Wikimedia Commons

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    No, it doesn’t have anything to do with WikiLeaks, but Wikimedia Commons is related to another familiar Wiki based phenomenon, Wikipedia, in that both are projects of the Wikimedia Foundation. (A wiki, by the way, is simply a kind of website, specifically, a potentially collaborative website created with wiki software, that allows for contribution, editing…

  • 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…