Tag: museums
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Have you seen this painting?
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,…
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Marina Abramović’s live feed from MoMA
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…
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Another museum website using tagging system
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.