{"id":2085,"date":"2012-04-14T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=2085"},"modified":"2012-04-13T11:30:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T15:30:26","slug":"google-images-goes-to-the-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/04\/14\/google-images-goes-to-the-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Google images goes to the museum."},"content":{"rendered":"
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"Sunday on La Grande Jatte," Georges Seurat<\/p><\/div>\n

Google–information of purveyor of all types–has expanded into art. The\u00a0Google Art Project<\/a> is a\u00a0database of over 32,000 high-quality images of art work from around the world.\u00a0The New York Times<\/a> calls it<\/p>\n

“a broad, deep river of shared information, something like a lavishly illustrated art book fused with high-end open storage.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And it is. It’s easy to spend a few minutes–or an hour, or longer, I can attest–feasting your eyes on paintings by Dutch masters or early Australian cave drawings. It seems, at first glance, like a wonderous and unending collection of all kinds of art for everyone to look at.<\/p>\n

But the project still has has pretty big flaws. As the NYT points out, a number of important museums including the Louvre and the Prado haven’t signed on. The artists with work in the collection are alphabetized by first anne.\u00a0The project certainly begs copyright issues, and there are whole schools of art and thought totally left out–notably 20th century Modernism. There’s not a single Picasso featured in the entire collection.<\/p>\n

I’m really intrigued by The Google Art Project. I think has the potential to change how a lot of people access art (gone, it seems, are the days of the slide projector we used in high school art history class). But I’m hesitant to champion it just yet, because I can understand why a museum might hesitate to allow the treasures in their collection to become part of a Google endavor–Google is perhaps the greatest curator of all.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Is this an egalitarian project bringing art to everyone with an internet connection? Or will Google wield undue influence on the art we, culturally, might want to consume?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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