art

Google Art Project is an online platform through which the public can access high-resolution images of artworks housed in the initiative’s partner museums. The project was launched on 1 February 2011 by Google, in cooperation with 17 international museums, including the Tate Gallery, London; theMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; and the Uffizi, Florence.^[1]

The platform enables users to virtually tour partner museums’ galleries, explore physical and contextual information about artworks, and compile their own virtual collection. The "walk-through" feature of the project uses Google'sStreet View technology.^[2] The images of many of the artworks were reproduced with very high quality, and each partner museum selected one artwork to be captured as a gigapixel image (with over 1 billion pixels).

Google Art Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

on YouTube:
Google Art Project - YouTube


Art Project - Teaser - YouTube

Take a virtual tour

Wherever you see the yellow “pegman” icon on the site, simply click to take a virtual tour of a cultural location.

Cultural Institute – Google

go to collections and click on the yellow 'pegman' to go on the virtual tour
Collections - Google Cultural Institute
for example:
Acropolis Museum - Google Cultural Institute

The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds

Tate Modern: Exhibition

12 October 2010 – 2 May 2011

Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. However realistic they may seem, these life-sized sunflower seed husks are in fact intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. 

Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small-scale workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape.

Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.

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The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds | Tate
Ai Weiwei: Sunflower seeds - YouTube


Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds at Tate Modern, London - YouTube
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