This Saturday museums all over the country are opening their doors to visitors for FREE! This opportunity sponsored by Smithsonian Magazine is a great chance to visit museums you’ve always wanted to see. Some of the participating museums in the Los Angeles area include The Craft and Folk Art Museum, The Skirball Cultural Center, The…
The Victoria & Albert Museum announced it has launched a Beta version of their site’s Search the Collections. With this version they plan to increase the number of online object records from 56,000 to over a million. The temporary address is www.vam.ac.uk/cis-online, and they welcome comments and ways to improve what they have. Unfortunately, you…
The Musée du Louvre has launched an English language version of Atlas, its online database that currently contains over 22,000 digital images and records (with the goal of making all 35,000 works on permanent display available). Many images include details or multiple views. This English version was made possible through the American Friends of the…
A Russian woman attacked Leonardo’s Mona Lisa at the Louvre on August 2 by throwing an empty mug she apparently had just purchased at the gift shop. No damage was done to the painting, however, as the mug shattered on contact with the protective glass. It is unclear whether the woman suffered from Stendhal Syndrome…
Check out this 4 1/2-minute YouTube video of Roman Signer’s 3-d projection that transforms a facade of O. M. Ungers’ Galerie der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle, in Hamburg. The original projection is part of the exhibition “Roman Signer. Projektionen: Super-8-Filme und Videos 1975-2008“.
The National Portrait Gallery in London is accusing a Wikipedia volunteer of downloading over 3000 high-resolution images onto the free online encyclopedia’s Wikimedia Commons. The NPG asserts that this denies revenue for the museum and is threatening legal action. Wikipedia counters that the museum is “betraying its public service mission.” via BBC News and Wikinews