JSTOR, in collaboration with the Frick Collection and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, offers a beta website to search auction catalogs from these two institutions. The pilot project digitizes and transcribes select pages from a set of American and British auction catalogs dating from the 18th-early 20th century. Users are encouraged to offer feedback, including…
The Boston Globe reports the FBI is using billboards along Boston highways to advertise a substantial reward for any information that might help solve what is considered the greatest art heist in US history. Twenty years ago today, two men posing as police officers stole 13 works of art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,…
The Museum of Modern Art in New York’s current retrospective of performance artist Marina Abramović includes a live video-feed of the artist in a new work, “The Artist is Present.” The piece, which can be viewed during museum hours through the run of the exhibition (14 March-31 May), is performed in the museum’s Marron Atrium…
In addition to the Indianapolis Museum (see next posting), the Brooklyn Museum is also using a tagging system to organize, and let the visitor organize, the collections. It’s a great interactive exercise, allowing you to determine your own set of image search parameters.
The Indianapolis Museum of Art has put up a page with an innovative way to browse their collections. It’s called Tag Tours, and is based on social tagging. For example you can browse works by tags such as colour, or a variety of content subjects/themes (animals, food, sports). It’s a great way for the museum…
The Museum of Broken Relationships is a great concept museum. It is based in Croatia, and is sending a collection on tour. It is currently at an Istanbul shopping mall – read more in this New York Times article. Exhibits include unopened bottles of champagne, cell phones, prosthetic legs, and more, all with great memories…