Posts and/or Videos Tagged ‘paintings’

Art up close & personal

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

Game changer with Google Art Project It was an employee called Amit Sood, who eventually convinced Google to utilize their streetwise camera technology to begin ‘mapping’ inside museums, hence the name Google Art Project. The results –  considering what Google have done for street maps – are just as outstanding, although why it took them [...]

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Valuable art work abused for fun

Monday, October 5th, 2009

In a great article the Onion has published a story about the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York letting customers paw, scratch and poke at a selection of its very valuable and prestigious paintings. Here’s fabulous “quote”: Gerard Schmidt, a retired banker who lives near the Met, said he had never much cared for [...]

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Villa delle Rose 2

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

Inside this 19th century villa now turned into a temporary art gallery for contemporary works. The Commune shares it among many galleries in Bologna so there can often be a great selection of art on display. The inside itself has nothing to offer except for 4 ceiling paintings which lack information on their origins.

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