Tag: museum
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A museum of self
The Metropolitan Museum only showcases ten percent of its owned pieces at any given time. The rest of the art is stored somewhere else waiting to be picked and featured. “A physical museum is itself a sort of data set — an aggregation of the micro in order to glimpse the macro.” We all have…
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers 400,000 free high-res images for remixing
Since starting a year ago, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has made 400,000 of its images free to download and remix. The project immediately empowered the likes of software developer and designer Simone Seagle. She downloaded a 1920s print from abstract Russian artist Vasily Kandinsky called Violett. Said Seagle: Generally you can’t be in…