Yesterday James Cuno, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, announced The Open Content Program, a 4,600 image gift to global culture.

Yesterday James Cuno, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, announced The Open Content Program, a 4,600 image gift to global culture.
BALTIMORE, 8 May — William Walters may have died in the 19th century, but today the museum that presents the encyclopedic collection of Walters and his son Henry Walters made a bold leap into the 21st century with the uploading of more than 19,000 images of artworks, along with associated information, to the Wikimedia Commons […]
BERLIN, 28 April — Silent since the demise of Blue Mars, the VBCO Travel & Safari Co. launched a field trip to the temporary virtual world of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2012 today. 10 started out on the journey and 4 were delivered to the promised land. 4 died quickly at the hands of MacOS 10.5.8 […]
THE HAGUE, 1 April — Today is the last day for the next two years that you’ll be able to see The Mauritshuis collection at The Mauritshuis. First opened to the public in 1822, now 190 years later, The Mauritshuis will close for 2 years of expansion and renovation that will go underground and across […]
Trill Zapatero has always figured prominently on the IRez blog: she was a fierce Homecoming Queen competitor (and eventual winner) @SLHS: http://vaneeesa.com/2010/11/14/butter-my-butt/ And she’s the founding director of the Afghanistan Museum of Second Life: http://vaneeesa.com/2010/10/08/afghanistan-museum/ You can still see all the lovely tiara photos at the Blaylock-Sharple-Keng-Tearfall art space “Butter My Butt Gallery” http://slurl.com/secondlife/An%20Li/127/60/21 And […]
The Virtual Afghanistan Museum is open now as Zapatero makes final adjustments, and in 5 or 6 weeks it’s moving to the solid earth of a homestead she’s acquiring.