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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Europeana "think culture" : Ideas Inspiration : Digital Items : Images Texts Sounds Videos

Europeana - About us:
"Europeana.eu ... links you to 6 million digital items.

* Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects
* Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers
* Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts
* Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts"

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

The Guggenheim: Kandinsky Retrospective Helps Set New Attendance Record for 2009

The Guggenheim: Kandinsky Retrospective Helps Set New Attendance Record for 2009
"Record-breaking attendance at the museum has been recorded for 2009, the fiftieth-anniversary year of the landmark building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Over 1.3 million visitors came to the museum this past year, enjoying groundbreaking exhibitions such as The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989; Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward; The Sweeney Decade: Acquisitions at the 1959 Inaugural; and Kandinsky....

The 50th Anniversary continues in 2010 with special exhibitions Tino Sehgal, opening January 29, and Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, which opens February 12."

Google Maps Mania: Google Map of the World's Art

Google Maps Mania: Google Map of the World's Art
"An unofficial Google Maps blog tracking the websites, mashups and tools being influenced by Google Maps.

GeocodedArt is a new website that is busy mapping the world's fine art paintings. The geocodedArt database contains over 1,000 images of identifiable places all over the world."

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