LIVERPOOL (REUTERS).- John Lennon’s son Julian and first wife Cynthia unveiled a monument to the late singer Saturday, the 70th anniversary of his birth, and said the time for mourning the former Beatle was over. The presentation of a $350,000 18-foot …
Paintings and Mixed Media Works Comprise Joyce Kozloff’s Exhibition at DC Moore Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery presents Joyce Kozloff: Navigational Triangles from October 2nd to October 30th, 2010. Long before Google Maps or GPS, seafarers used navigational triangles to pinpoint their location and to chart their course in relatio…
Paintings and Mixed Media Works Comprise Joyce Kozloff’s Exhibition at DC Moore Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery presents Joyce Kozloff: Navigational Triangles from October 2nd to October 30th, 2010. Long before Google Maps or GPS, seafarers used navigational triangles to pinpoint their location and to chart their course in relatio…
125 YouTube Videos Shortlisted for Guggenheim’s YouTube Play
NEW YORK (AP).- Among the hundreds of thousands of videos uploaded daily to YouTube, surely a work of art is in there somewhere. Such is the premise behind “YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video,” the first curated search for videos of a higher br…
125 YouTube Videos Shortlisted for Guggenheim’s YouTube Play
NEW YORK (AP).- Among the hundreds of thousands of videos uploaded daily to YouTube, surely a work of art is in there somewhere. Such is the premise behind “YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video,” the first curated search for videos of a higher br…
Global Positioning System? Mapquest? Not for Fans of Hand-Drawn Maps
BOSTON (REUTERS).- As high-tech mapping services such as Garmin, Google and MapQuest make finding directions easier than ever, a new movement has revived interest in maps made by hand, as a route toward personal expression. Ingrid Burrington plotted en…
Global Positioning System? Mapquest? Not for Fans of Hand-Drawn Maps
BOSTON (REUTERS).- As high-tech mapping services such as Garmin, Google and MapQuest make finding directions easier than ever, a new movement has revived interest in maps made by hand, as a route toward personal expression. Ingrid Burrington plotted en…
Contemporary Arts Center App Explores Cincinnati through Shepard Fairey Murals
CINCINNATI, OH.- The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) announces the first official interactive mobile application for exploring Cincinnati through art! The CAC is the first museum in the U.S. to use the cutting-edge, Google-endorsed SCVNGR technology to …
Google Announces Planned Documentation of Iraqi Museum Treasures
BAGHDAD (AP).- Google is documenting Iraq’s National
Museum and will post photographs of its ancient treasures on the Internet early
next year, Google chief Eric Schmidt announced. The museum was ransacked in the
chaotic aftermath of Saddam Huss…
Google Celebrates 110th Birthday of Rene Magritte with a Magritte Doodle
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Google is celebrating the 110th birthday of Rene Magritte by incorporating some of Magritte’s masterpieces with the Google logo. Ever so often, Google does a “doodle”, or a “decoration” they make to their logo. Over th…