Inside the Google Cultural Institute
September 16 2015
Picture: Google Art Project/Royal Collection, detail of Charles I in Three Positions by Sir Anthony Van Dyck
There's an interesting article by Maureen Dowd in the New York Times on the Google Cultural Institute's mission to digitally replicate the world's art. I'm a big fan of the Institute, especially when you see how good Google's Art Project images are (as above), and even more so when I see comments like this:
“I don’t care so much if they use Google or not, to be very blunt,” [Institute head Amit Sood] said. “I care more that cultural institutions that have great stuff under lock and key put it out there for anybody to download.
Hurrah. Though I must say, looking at (for example) what passes as a 'Van Dyck' on the Institute's Van Dyck page, that they could benefit from a little diligence in their cataloguing.
