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• Fondation Louis Vuitton's Digital Strategy: Interview with Patricia Buffa digital

  In an interview with Artribune, Patricia Buffa, Head of Digital Communication at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, discusses the institution's digital strategy. The foundation,…

• MoMA digitizes its entire exhibition archive, from 1929 to present digital

  The Museum of Modern Art in New York has digitized its complete exhibition history, making available online over 72,000 artworks from a collection of nearly 200,000 pieces by…

• Gucci Places App Merges Fashion, Culture, and Technology digital

  Gucci has launched Gucci Places, a smartphone app that identifies iconic locations tied to the brand, starting with Chatsworth in Derbyshire. The app, created with art director…

• David Lynch's Cinematic Homages to Great Painters digital

  A new video essay by VoorDeFilm explores how filmmaker David Lynch (born Missoula, 1946) has consistently referenced major painters in his work. Lynch, an avid painter himself,…

• Public Art in the Digital Age: From Blinkenlights to Times Square digital

  The article explores the intersection of public art and digital technology, referencing George Kubler's notion that tools are communication instruments. It highlights…

• SFMOMA launches SMS service to send artworks on demand digital

  The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) has launched a new service called Send Me SFMOMA that allows users to receive images of artworks via text message. By sending an…

• Cuphead's 1930s Animation Style Sets Release Date digital

  Cuphead, a highly anticipated indie video game, finally has a release date of September 29, 2017, for Xbox One and PC. Created by Canadian brothers Chad and Jared Moldenhauer of…

• Poet on the Shore: AI Robot Writes Poems on the Beach digital

  Chinese designer Yuxi Liu created Poet on the Shore, a non-anthropomorphic robot equipped with artificial intelligence that wanders along the beach. Unlike utilitarian machines,…

• Michel Gondry's iPhone 7 Plus Short Film 'Détour' digital

  Michel Gondry directed an 11-minute short film titled 'Détour' for Apple, shot entirely on an iPhone 7 Plus. The film follows a pink tricycle that, after losing its owners,…

• Metropolitan Museum partners with Internet Archive to digitize 140,000 artworks digital

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has partnered with Internet Archive to make over 140,000 artworks available online under Creative Commons licenses. The collaboration…

• TreeSense VR: Become a Tree from Seed to Felling digital

  TreeSense is a virtual reality system that transforms the user into a tree, simulating the physical sensations of another life form. Created by Yedan Qian of the Umeå Institute of…

• Mapping Paintings: Open-Source Platform Tracks Artworks' Journeys digital

  A team at Boston University, led by professor Jodi Cranston, has launched Mapping Paintings, an open-source platform that visualizes the provenance and travel history of artworks…

• Maurizio Cattelan's Instagram Account Features Only One Ephemeral Post at a Time digital

  Maurizio Cattelan (Padua, 1960) has launched a peculiar Instagram project under the handle "The Single Post." His account has nearly 26,000 followers, zero accounts he follows,…

• Auditorium Parco della Musica Launches Participatory Instagram Account digital

  The Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome has launched a dedicated Instagram account, @Iloveauditorium, coinciding with the start of the Luglio Suona Bene festival. The account…

• MoMA video explores how artists reflect their environment through van Gogh, Mondrian, and Matta-Clark digital

  The Museum of Modern Art in New York has released a video examining how artists are influenced by their surroundings and how artworks convey that relationship. The video focuses…

• French duo Menilmonde imagines New York flooded in dystopian short film digital

  The French video duo Menilmonde has created a short film titled 'Two°C – New York' depicting a flooded Manhattan. The dystopian scenario is based on a plausible global temperature…

• TEFAF Launches Digital Platform and Online Art Market Report digital

  TEFAF, the renowned art fair based in Maastricht, Netherlands, has introduced a digital initiative with the launch of the Art Market Report Online Focus in London. This report…

• Poetronicart startup merges art, science, and economy in digital platform digital

  A new startup called Poetronicart has launched in Rome, aiming to integrate economic and scientific principles into the cultural sector. The platform, presented at Mercato…

• Brett Foxwell's 'Woodswimmer' Celebrates Wood Grain in Stop-Motion digital

  Brett Foxwell, an engineer and stop-motion animator who built armatures for films like 'Boxtrolls' and 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens,' has released a short film titled…

• Artsy's Marina Cashdan on Digital Art Marketplace Strategy digital

  In an interview with Artribune, Marina Cashdan, Artsy's Director of Content, and Graham Newhall explored the platform's development. Cashdan attributed Artsy's achievements to its…

• Animated video traces Julia Margaret Cameron's late start in photography digital

  A new animated video by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art tells the story of Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879), who first picked up a camera at age 48. The camera was a gift…

• Jeff Koons, Marina Abramović, Olafur Eliasson create VR works for Acute Art digital

  The new UK startup Acute Art has commissioned Jeff Koons, Marina Abramović, and Olafur Eliasson to create original virtual reality artworks. Koons' project, titled Phryne,…

• Archivio Luce goes online with a century of Italian history digital

  The Archivio Luce, a vast Italian archive spanning nearly a century from 1924, has launched an online platform offering thousands of images and video documents. The archive, now…

• Google Arts & Culture launches 'We Wear Culture' fashion archive with 180+ institutions digital

  Google has partnered with over 180 cultural institutions from New York to Tokyo to launch 'We Wear Culture' on Google Arts & Culture, a digital archive exploring fashion history…

• Rhizome and Google Arts & Culture Partner to Preserve Digital Art digital

  New York-based organization Rhizome, which has spent over two decades promoting and preserving new media and net art, has announced a partnership with Google Arts & Culture. The…

• MAXXI joins Google's 'We Wear Culture' digital fashion exhibition digital

  The MAXXI museum in Rome has partnered with Google and over 180 cultural institutions worldwide for the 'We Wear Culture' project, which uses cutting-edge technology to explore…

• Souldesigner's videomapping lights up Naples basilica for Sky Arte Festival digital

  A spectacular videomapping projection animated the facade of the 17th-century Basilica of Santa Maria della Sanità in Naples on May 6-7, 2017, during the first edition of the Sky…

• Google's AutoDraw Turns Scribbles into Art Using Machine Learning digital

  Google has launched AutoDraw, an experimental web-based platform that uses machine learning to transform rough sketches into polished drawings. The tool, accessible on any device…

• Europeana Photography Archive Launches with 2 Million Images digital

  Europeana Photography, a new online archive aggregating photographic heritage from over fifty European institutions, has launched. The initiative, promoted by Photoconsortium, the…

• Kouhei Nakama's Generative Surrealism in 'Makin' Moves' digital

  Kouhei Nakama, a Japanese art director known for experimental generative animation, created 'Makin' Moves', a hallucinatory and playful video that deconstructs 3D human bodies to…

• Nancy Proctor on Museum Innovation and Community Co-Creation digital

  In 2017, Nancy Proctor, the founder of the MuseWeb Foundation and director of the Peale Center in Baltimore, addressed attendees at a Meet the Media Guru event in Milan. She…

• Google Pixel's 'Artworks Live Cases' Feature Astronaut-Inspired Designs by Eliza McNitt digital

  Google has launched a new series of interactive smartphone cases under its 'Artworks Live Cases' initiative, priced at $35. The cases, designed by artists and designers, feature a…

• FaceApp puts smiles on Rijksmuseum portraits in viral social media trend digital

  British graphic designer and illustrator Ollie Gibbs, visiting Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum with his girlfriend, noticed that the museum's portrait collection—spanning the Renaissance,…

• POIUYT Platform Launches at Galleria Michela Rizzo During Venice Biennale digital

  During the Venice Biennale preview, POIUYT presented its new web platform for contemporary art at Galleria Michela Rizzo. The project, founded by curators Francesca Lazzarini and…

• Google Arts & Culture Launches Digital Grand Tour of Italy digital

  On May 16, 2017, Google introduced the Grand Tour d'Italia in a digital format at Tesa 94 in the Arsenale Nord, Venice. This initiative, created in partnership with several…

• Delaware Museum digitizes Rossetti letters, Fanny Cornforth archive goes online digital

  The Delaware Art Museum has digitized the correspondence between Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his muse Fanny Cornforth, making the letters publicly accessible…

• Atelier video series documents 100+ Romagna artists digital

  The DOC Centro Documentazione Arti Moderne e Contemporanee in Romagna, a project of the Fondazione della Cassa di Risparmio di Imola, has launched a new series of short films…

• Cinemagraphs Capture Ocean Waves in Hypnotic 'The Infinite Now' digital

  A series of cinemagraphs titled 'The Infinite Now' transforms ocean wave photography into hypnotic moving images. The project combines still photographs by Ray Collins with…

• Biennale di Venezia's revamped website merges archives and artist videos digital

  The 57th Venice Biennale's website, Viva Arte Viva, has been redesigned as a portal combining the ASAC (Archivio Storico delle Arti Contemporanee) and the Fondazione La Biennale…

• BlindWiki: Venice Through the Voices of the Blind digital

  BlindWiki, an app-based project by artist Antoni Abad (born 1956 in Lleida), transforms Venice into an intimate theater of hidden signs and potential images. Developed in 2015…