{"id":521,"date":"2011-02-02T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2011\/02\/02\/googles-new-art-project\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:29:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:29:48","slug":"googles-new-art-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2011\/02\/02\/googles-new-art-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s new art project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might have heard recent news stories concerning Google&#8217;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.googleartproject.com\/\">Art Project<\/a>.  Using Google&#8217;s Street View technology, designer Amit Sood teamed up with 17 of the world&#8217;s most famous museums, including the MoMA, the Met, the Tate and the Hermitage, to create virtual tours of many of their treasured possessions.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, each museum agreed to allow Google to shoot selected works with a high-resolution camera that enables viewers to study the works at magnifications that far exceed the naked eye.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a wonderful site to explore for art lovers of all types.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Google&#8217;s Art Project, check out the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/02\/02\/133419782\/google-offers-virtual-gallery-tours\"> story on NPR&#8217;s Morning Edition<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might have heard recent news stories concerning Google&#8217;s new Art Project. Using Google&#8217;s Street View technology, designer Amit Sood teamed up with 17 of the world&#8217;s most famous museums, including the MoMA, the Met, the Tate and the Hermitage, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2011\/02\/02\/googles-new-art-project\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Google&#8217;s new art project<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1383,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/1383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}