Stop the Press! An El Greco has been found!
More information about the Google Art Project was recently reported by the Post, with The Art Institute of Chicago getting in on the act.
(The AIC online museum shop and mail order catalogue, incidentally, is one of my all-time favorites. The items on offer are not as extensive as, for instance, at The Metropolitian Museum of Art in New York, but there are a lot of unique and amazing gift items available. My mother adored the Gorey Moon Cat Pin, for instance, I gave her one year for Christmas and purchased from the AIC catalogue.)
And USA Today has also reported on the White House exhibit now on Google Art Project, which I also referenced in a recent post.
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Thursday, April 12, 2012
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Google Art Project @ White House & Beyond
"Thanks to Google Art Project, you can visit @White House whenever you like."
This was tweeted today (April 3, 2012) by First Lady Michelle Obama, who is one of nearly 250 individuals, media outlets, or organizations I presently follow on Twitter. (My Twitter "handle" is @Carstens71)
If you click the tab that says "Featured" in the lower lefthand corner of the Google Art Project website, one of these items invites you to "Explore the White House with the First Lady of the United States of America."
Yet even after signing in with my gmail account password, it was hard to enter this new White House tour on the site - perhaps there was either a temporary glitch or something was wrong with my (likely outdated) PC browser.
Leaving aside my initial confusion at navigating this site, it clearly serves as an excellent online compilation of high-resolution images of artworks located in museums and galleries all over the world, from the Acropolis Museum to the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University.
In Washington, D.C., for instance, the Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries have also been included.
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art and Frick Collection were moreover among the first museums included on the site.
Google Art Project, a real treat for anyone who wishes to view great art online, was launched in 2011.
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| First Lady Michelle Obama with U.S. President Barack Obama and their daughters Malia (left) and Sasha (right) at the White House. (Official press photo from the White House website.) |
If you click the tab that says "Featured" in the lower lefthand corner of the Google Art Project website, one of these items invites you to "Explore the White House with the First Lady of the United States of America."
Yet even after signing in with my gmail account password, it was hard to enter this new White House tour on the site - perhaps there was either a temporary glitch or something was wrong with my (likely outdated) PC browser.
Leaving aside my initial confusion at navigating this site, it clearly serves as an excellent online compilation of high-resolution images of artworks located in museums and galleries all over the world, from the Acropolis Museum to the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University.
In Washington, D.C., for instance, the Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries have also been included.
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art and Frick Collection were moreover among the first museums included on the site.
Google Art Project, a real treat for anyone who wishes to view great art online, was launched in 2011.
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