The Minneapolis Institute of Arts maintains its sense of humor after a billboard, advertising its notable Titian exhibition, was vandalized. The bare-chested beauty portrayed on the billboard was given a spraypainted red top to keep her warm in the cold winter weather, with the word, "Brrr!" accompanying the spraypainted adjustment.
Rather than taking it down however, the museum decided to leave the billboard up, stating that there was some truth to the new display. "It is cold!" states the Minneapolis Institute of Arts head of PR, Anne-Marie Wagener, "it has that whole sort of funny element."
Kudos to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts for exercising a sense of levity and some flexibility.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has plans to turn their prestigious art museum more "technology-friendly". The museum has taken on the daunting task of wiring its huge facility for Wi-Fi, so that visitors can access the app that correlates to the artwork on display. In the future, a more advanced program will be available to visitors with smart phones or tablet computers, so that they can quickly view text, narrations, and images of the artwork. This more entertaining approach to museum experiences will hopefully draw a broader audience and help "demystify the museum".
Now you can tour internationally renown museums from your desktop at home. Google's new Art Project uses their "Street View"technology to allow viewers to digitally walk through museums such as the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the MoMA in New York, the Palace of Versailles in France, and the National Gallery in London. With advanced zoom capabilities and easily-accessed information on each of the paintings, these virtual tours are almost better than the real thing!
