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Museums are sending each other their best duck pics on Twitter
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Museums are having a field day with these duck pics.
The Museum of English Rural Life, whose Twitter account is the internet equivalent of a hot cup of tea on a rainy day, asked the British Museum to give them their “best duck.”
hey @britishmuseum give us your best duck
— The Museum of English Rural Life (@TheMERL) January 4, 2019
Instead, museums from around the world started submitting their own ducks, of all shapes, sizes, and designs, for consideration.
Dr. Rhi Smith from the University of Reading tweeted a photo of this gorgeous carved duck, which doubles as a jug for all the thirst tweets. Read more…
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View More Museums are sending each other their best duck pics on TwitterCan an ‘Instagram museum’ have phone-free moments? 29Rooms gives it a shot.
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I got so up close and personal with a fake rock wall at Refinery29’s experiential pop-up, 29Rooms, that fuzzy little pieces of moss kept falling off of my dress long after my visit. The appearance of each new green fuzz reminded me of the cool mist and warm light I’d felt as they’d stuck to my body in the first place — while I was blindfolded and wearing headphones.
My encounter with the wet moss was one of a handful of “phone-free” experiences at the event, which is in its fourth year. We’ve come to a point when those who visit exhibits built for Instagram — they’re a dime a dozen these days — are demanding something more. Read more…
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View More Can an ‘Instagram museum’ have phone-free moments? 29Rooms gives it a shot.A museum without walls: How the Met is bringing its ancient collection online
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The baby Jesus in Italian sculptor Luca della Robbia’s “Madonna and Child with Scroll” is surprisingly…sassy. Wrapped in his placid mother’s arms, he even seems to be serving a “girl, please” side-eye. His whole figure is full of personality and detail; his baby hands and ears, though porcelain, look chubby enough to bite. Up close — very up close — he even has baby teeth.
On October 4, Joe Coscia, Jr., the Metropolitan Museum of Art‘s quiet but devoted chief photographer, undertook the task of capturing the Madonna, and her child with their scroll, digitally.
“How often do you get to photograph a della Robbia?” Coscia said while he worked. “Maybe once in a lifetime — twice if you’re lucky.” Read more…
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View More A museum without walls: How the Met is bringing its ancient collection onlineBelgian museums are uniting in protest against Facebook over artistic nudity ban
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Belgian museums are banding together to take on Facebook over the social media giant’s rules on nudity, specifically of the artistic variety.
The Flemish Tourist Board is trying to convince Facebook to change its rules over how it treats artistic nudity from Flemish Masters such as Peter Paul Rubens. The tourist board, Visit Flanders, points out that its Facebook postings with images containing artistic nudity are often removed by the company when they try to promote them.
Basically, Facebook’s rules do allow for the paintings to be posted on its social network, but the issue arises once a Facebook page, such as the museum’s, wants to promote the post on Facebook advertising platform. Belgian museums are saying this is making it difficult for them to attract visitors to its locations. Read more…
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View More Belgian museums are uniting in protest against Facebook over artistic nudity banFinally, a mobile guide that makes pulling your phone out in a museum worth it
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If you’ve ever gazed at a giant Jeff Koons ballon dog and thought, “what the heck was Koons thinking?” now there’s a way for you to get answers to that question, instantaneously.
On Saturday, the Hirshhorn Museum, which is the U.S. national museum of modern art, launches a new smartphone museum companion called Hirshhorn Eye (or, Hi). Hi allows museum visitors to scan pieces of art with their phones, and generate videos featuring iconic artists like Koons or Yayoi Kusama talking about their work. The best part? It’s Not. An. App.
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View More Finally, a mobile guide that makes pulling your phone out in a museum worth itBeyoncé re-gifts ring given to her by Jay-Z to a museum
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Listen, we’ve all known for a while that Beyoncé is a name that’ll appear in history books for years to come.
But, now a piece of her jewellery is sitting alongside that of history’s other female MVPs — Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, and the Empress Josephine.
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Beyoncé rather generously donated a butterfly ring given to her as a gift by Jay-Z to London’s Victoria and Albert (V&A) museum.
Image: glenn spiro
The “papillon ring” — designed by London-based jeweller Glenn Spiro a.k.a. “G”—is formed of titanium wings, encrusted with green tsavorites, and surrounded with diamondsAccording to the Guardian, the ring is “one of a number of G pieces Beyoncé owns, mostly gifted by Jay-Z”. Read more…
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View More Beyoncé re-gifts ring given to her by Jay-Z to a museumBring on museum companion apps — but only if they’re absolutely awesome
On a weekday afternoon in the Greek and Roman sculpture hall at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, I was, to my surprise, the only visitor on my phone.
The long gallery was fairly empty, but it was oddly devoid of the usual selfie-takers and Insta…
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Gulliver’s Gate in New York City is the largest interactive museum of miniatures in the world. It’s made up of hyper-realistic models of various cities, designed and arranged together by artists from each country. Read more…More about Mashable…
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People are endlessly fascinated with doppelgängers, as one massively viral tweet definitely proves.
The original tweeter shared some pictures from other sources, and it definitely captured imaginations. (It looks like many of these are in a compilation by Bored Panda, although they’ve been circulating the internet for a while.) Here’s the original tweet:
people that found their doppelgängers in art museums omg this is so cool pic.twitter.com/JNlfGp1juP
— deenerys (@cdaenerys) December 26, 2017
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View More Museum doppelgängers tweet goes massively viral because they’re always amazingMuseum doppelgängers tweet goes massively viral because they’re always amazing
People are endlessly fascinated with doppelgängers, as one massively viral tweet definitely proves.
The original tweeter shared some pictures from other sources, and it definitely captured imaginations. (It looks like many of these are in a compilation by Bored Panda, although they’ve been circulating the internet for a while.) Here’s the original tweet:
people that found their doppelgängers in art museums omg this is so cool pic.twitter.com/JNlfGp1juP
— deenerys (@cdaenerys) December 26, 2017
SEE ALSO: Can you tell the difference between ‘The Room’ cast and their ‘Disaster Artist’ doppelgangers? Read more…
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View More Museum doppelgängers tweet goes massively viral because they’re always amazingHere comes the Museum of Selfies to stoke your Instagram-art obsession
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Your sister’s friend’s duckface selfie might not compare to the Mona Lisa on first glance (or at all), but a new experiential museum is challenging that notion.
The Museum of Selfies, opening in January in a Los Angeles suburb, purports to raise — if not answer — lofty questions like “is the selfie art?” or “why do we disdain selfies?”
Along with art inspired by selfie culture that’s designed to educate comes photo ops and interactive spaces built for Instagram. As much as this museum is about meditating on the roles selfies play in our lives, it also feeds into a larger trend hitting cities across the world: spaces like the Museum of Ice Cream and Happy Place specially made for social media. Even before we were all taking pictures in sprinkle pools and confetti rooms, we were using Jeff Koons’ balloon dogs to capture our reflections in the perfect pic. This is how we interact with art now. Read more…
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View More Here comes the Museum of Selfies to stoke your Instagram-art obsession