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It’s one of the most prestigious museums in the world, but if you find yourself in The Louvre in Paris, prepare to deal with some major crowds.
Whether he got a private tour or sneaked in, French photographer Franck Bohbot’s images of a Louvre devoid of people are jaw dropping.
We discovered some Museum visitors that look an awful lot alike the artworks they are looking at. Coincidence? Which artwork at the Museum best suits your style?
“The Ballet Class,” c. 1880, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas
“White and Black,” 1955, Ellsworth Kelly, Collection of the artist © Ellsworth Kelly
“A Wheatfield on a Summer’s Afternoon,” 1942, Marc Chagall © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
“Untitled XXI,” 1982, Willem de Kooning © The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
“Red,” 1955-56, Sam Francis © Samuel L. Francis Foundation, California / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
“Umpferstedt II,” 1914, Lyonel Feininger © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Water Lilies, Claude Monet
At Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris.
The Freer|Sackler Galleries at the Smithsonian have launched their high-resolution Digitization project, and the images are now available at their website. To learn more about the project, give feedback, or get involved, check their Digitization blog. For those who want to beef up their academic resume: they need both beta testers and transcribers!
Visitors to #TurnerPrize @Tate have used paper and pencil to recreate the internet on the comments board
This is my favourite thing today.
Earlier this year a conservator at the Hamilton Kerr Institute made a surprising discovery while working on a painting owned by the Fitzwilliam Museum. As Shan Kuany removed the old varnish from the surface, she revealed the whale that had been the intended focus of the scene.
National Gallery, Londres
See, this is why you hold a bunch of keys loosely in your hands.
Then when you drop off too much, you drop the keys and wake yourself back up.
Handy Gallery Attendant tip #65
"Going beyond setting the human body in a natural environment, vickyalthaus has set her subject in what appears to be the familiar scene of a natural history museum. This combination, rather than simply pairing a model with live or taxidermied animals in a more natural state, calls into question our ideas of conservation, our relationship to animals, as well as our relationship to our own bodies. Offering very little titillation, the model’s nudity mirrors the animals, though the interaction appears off-putting, enhanced by the dimly lit room and drab staging. Perhaps the most interesting observation is that the nude model, merely stopping in and solely as a visitor, appears as unnatural as the stuffed animals that are meant to portray some example of our natural world."
Francis Alÿs, Nightwatch, 2004.
Surveillance cameras observe a fox exploring the Tudor and Georgian rooms of the National Portrait Gallery at night.
This is why the fox was waiting for the atm. He needed money to visit museums.
Wait, the NPG (UK) is free
Maybe he wants to go to the gift shop.
Tate have released the template for their Digital Metrics Dashboard and licensed it under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Licence so other museums and galleries can also use it.
The first digital dashboard we have created in this analytics journey allows us to monitor the overarching digital trends and get a snapshot of our digital activities each month across the website, social media and mobile apps. It includes an overview of how many people comes to the website, how they arrive, which content they visit and whether they engage with our content leaving comments in our blogs and videos. We publish this report monthly and it is distributed to the whole organisation.
Time to play with data!
I went to the MCA in Chicago yesterday with my family and my brothers matched these paintings and then this happened.
Fabiola by Francis Alÿs
Fabiola is an installation of over 300 painted copies and reproductions of fourth century Saint-Fabiola, collected by Francis Alÿs from flea markets and antique shops throughout Europe and America in the last 20 years. They are all based on a now lost original painting by french artist Jean-Jacques Henner made in the nineteenth century.
Art appreciation: ur doin it rite.
See van Gogh's most famous works in the colours he painted them in, thanks to Van Gogh, My Dream Exhibition, Amsterdam.
