Project: Google Art

Google Art Project Expands

Last February, Google launched Art Project, a service that lets users take a virtual tour of one thousand works of art from seventeen top notch great museums, including the MoMA and Met in New York City, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the Van Gogh Museum and Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and much, much more.

Now, Google is announcing that Art Project is expanded its coverage, giving users access to another 30,000 high-resolution artworks from 151 museums across 40 countries. The virtual tour includes paintings as well as sculptures, street art and photographs. And you can now explore collections (see all) from the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar, the Museu De Arte Moderna De São Paulo in Brazil, and the Tokyo National Museum. This is all part of Google’s effort to bring cultural artifacts to the broadest possible audience. All we can say is keep it coming!

Video: Art in the Era of the Internet

“Art in the Era of the Internet” by PBS Arts: Off Book takes a look at how three Internet phenomena - Kickstarter, Creative Commons, and The Creators Project - that are influencing the art world.

In this episode we take a look at the impact of this new interconnectivity on the art world. Traditional funding models are dissolving, new forms of expressing ownership have arisen to accomodate for remix culture, and artists are finding ways to connect physical art experiences and traditions to the internet. In the digital era, the experience of art from the perspective of the artist and the art audience is shifting rapidly, and bringing more people into the creative process.