LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced a collaboration with Google that enables visitors using the Google Goggles ™ mobile application to now have immediate access to rich online resources for information about paintings in the Museu…
Getty is First Museum to Provide Expanded Google Goggles Experience to Visitors
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced a collaboration with Google that enables visitors using the Google Goggles ™ mobile application to now have immediate access to rich online resources for information about paintings in the Museu…
Fabien Fryns Fine Art Presents Lu Xinjian’s Aerial City Views
Los Angeles, CA.- Fabien Fryns Fine Art, Los Angeles, is pleased to announce “Lu Xinjian: City DNA III”, the artist’s first solo exhibition in the US, from June 25th through August 27th. In Lu’s obsessively meticulous paintings of aerial views o…
British Library, Google in Deal to Digitize Books Published between 1700 and 1870
LONDON (AP).- A treatise on a stuffed hippopotamus, an 18th-century English primer for Danish sailors and a description of the first engine-driven submarine are among 250,000 books to be made available online in a deal between Google and the British L…
YouTube Play Recognized at Tribeca Film Festival
NEW YORK, NY.- On April 26, YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video was recognized at the second annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards. One of the major non-film events at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, the Disruptive Innovation Awards celebr…
SFMOMA and Google Partner to Give Bay Area Families Greater Access to Art Education
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announces a partnership with Bay Area–based technology company Google that will advance both institutions’ shared vision to spur creativity and broaden access to art education for…
New York’s $30 Million MoMath Museum Aims to Add to Mathematics Appreciation
NEW YORK (AP).- Mathematics. It’s a subject that can elicit groans and exclamations of “boring.” But Glen Whitney, a former hedge-fund quantitative analyst, is betting he can change that with a formula that looks like this: math (equals) discovery (e…
Jordan Creates World’s Largest Online Antiquities Database at Cost of $1 Million
AMMAN (AP).- Jordan on Tuesday launched the world’s largest online antiquities database, which details every archaeological site in the country and aims to help preserve its treasures. Its creators said the Web platform could be a model for Iraq, wher…
USC Art Law Society to Hold "The Business of Art: A Forecast for 2011"
LAS ANGELES, CA.- In the age of skyrocketing auction prices, the explosion of global art fairs, and increased digitization from iPad masterpieces to the Google Art Project, how are artists, galleries, and cultural institutions around the world adapting…
Archive of WW II Codebreaker Alan Turing Preserved by National Heritage Memorial Fund
LONDON (AP).- Papers relating to codebreaker and computer pioneer Alan Turing will go to a British museum after the National Heritage Memorial Fund stepped in to help buy them for the nation. The government-backed fund said Friday it had donated more t…