If anyone needed convincing that an API might be a good idea, this news might just do it for you. A few weeks ago, we approved an API key for Adam Shackelford, a Brooklyn-based developer, to create an iPhone app.
We couldn’t have been more thrilled when Adam contacted us to say he was working on [...]
Brooklyn Museum Director Arnold Lehman has announced a series of measures the Museum is undertaking to address the current—and what may likely be ongoing—economic crisis. The measures proposed are conceived so that our public and our visitors can continue to benefit fully from the Museum’s exceptional resources. As valued friends of the Museum, I want [...]
People have been asking how I learned of Sun K. Kwak. I first noticed Sun’s work well over a year ago through the gallery that represents her. I obtained basic information about Sun and looked at installation shots of her previous projects at the Queens Museum of Art, NY; Gallery Skape, Seoul, Korea; [...]
My role in Wikipedia Loves Art was solely as a processor of data. I was not involved with the creation or any of the planning of the contest. That being said, here are some project statistics as well as my experiences with the contest.
At the end of the contest there were over 13,000 images in [...]
I have been interested to see the results of our online quiz. I think the main problem with it was the software we had to used from MyStudio, which allowed only one view, and, more importantly, didn’t permit closeups. One user commented about the lack of back views with reference to the Standing [...]
Art Speaks is a museum visit program designed specifically for fourth-grade classrooms in Philadelphia public schools. The content is art and the wonderful ways we can learn about and respond to what artists create. The learning strategies are literacy based, and connect to The School District of Philadelphia�s fourth-grade language arts curriculum.
Listen to or download Curator Joseph Rishel’s 3-part Podcast.
The Black List Project just opened last week and our education staff really wanted to include visitor response as part of the exhibition. Typically, we do this with our electronic comment books which have been working well for us, but the educators felt that a more personal storytelling was what they were looking for [...]
You’ve been walking around a museum for several hours looking at hundreds of artworks, and want to take a break and sit for a minute. . . . whether to chat with a friend, rest your feet, or to spend a few minutes gazing at a particularly interesting artwork . . . but, alas, can’t [...]
I’ve already reported on many of the really cool things that can happen when participating in a venture like this one. We continue to get feedback on all kinds of usage and it’s been great to see people discovering these images and working with them in different ways.
World’s Columbian Exposition: Ferris Wheel, Chicago, United [...]
