Happy birthday Thomas Sully! The American painter was born on 19 June 1783.  Here's the image of his painting "The Student (Rosalie Kemble Sully)"  from +The Mint Museum's collection, available in high resolution: http://goo.gl/ww9a1 #art  

Is Contemporary Art for You?
MOCA’s mission is to be the defining museum of contemporary art, but how do we come to a shared understanding of art produced during our lifetime?

Join artists Gary Baseman (http://goo.gl/bmhHh) and Amanda Ross-Ho (http://goo.gl/1ml0f), and MOCA Curator Bennett Simpson for a conversation about how their work functions in different cultural contexts and what role the audience plays in the production and presentation of art. Moderated by Bret Nicely, MOCA Associate Director of Digital Media.

Join the conversation and ask questions to the speakers on this page, using the hashtag #arttalks

Join us Monday 17 June at 2 pm GMT for the live Art Talk " Behind the Scenes: curating an exhibition, from start to finish " with William Greenwood, Curator of Metalwork, +Museum of Islamic Art (MIA).
 
The majority of people, even many who work in museums are not entirely sure of what curators do. Drawing on his recent experiences at the Museum of Islamic Art, William Greenwood will address one of the most public aspects of the curator’s role… that of putting together temporary exhibitions.
 
In this hangout, he will show how this happens, from the moment of inspiration which sets the process in motion, to the opening night of the show and beyond. From the glorious to the mundane, this is a curator’s-eye view of the life-cycle of an exhibition.

Wherever you are in the world, you can join the conversation. Just
write your questions and comments on this page and we will ask them to the curator during the live talk.

Join curators from the Guggenheim, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston for a Q&A about James Turrell, the renowned light artist whose works are on view this summer at all three museums. Questions will be crowd-sourced prior to the talk. The live video discussion featuring Nat Trotman, Associate Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Alison de Lima Greene, Curator of Contemporary Art and Special Projects, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and Christine Y. Kim, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art will be moderated by Wil Hylton, Contributing Writer, New York Times Magazine.

Submit your question on James Turrell by Thursday, June 20, 5 pm EDT via the Turrell Trifecta submission form : http://goo.gl/5zsE7
Follow #ArtTalks (http://goo.gl/J60w7) and the Guggenheim (http://goo.gl/PTw2I), MFAH (http://goo.gl/YdLrX), and LACMA on Google+ for updates.

Is Contemporary Art for You?
MOCA’s mission is to be the defining museum of contemporary art, but how do we come to a shared understanding of art produced during our lifetime?

Join artists Gary Baseman (http://goo.gl/bmhHh) and Amanda Ross-Ho (http://goo.gl/1ml0f), and MOCA Curator Bennett Simpson for a conversation about how their work functions in different cultural contexts and what role the audience plays in the production and presentation of art. Moderated by Bret Nicely, MOCA Associate Director of Digital Media.

Join the conversation and ask questions to the speakers on this page, using the hashtag #arttalks

Ever been to Skagen, Denmark? The +Skagens Museum has a collection of works by members of the colony of Skagen Painters who lived and worked in the area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Visit the Skagens Museum anytime: http://goo.gl/VSZ8X #museumview   #art   #denmark  

Thank you for watching our #ArtTalk  with +J. Paul Getty Mus.! If you missed the live broadcast, the full video is available on our YouTube channel. #hoa   #arttalks   #musesocial  

Robert Sain, J. Paul Getty Mus., MoMA Teacherone, and Jessica Cusick

Join us Monday 17 June at 2pm GMT for the live Art Talk " Behind the Scenes: curating an exhibition, from start to finish " with William Greenwood, Curator of Metalwork, +Museum of Islamic Art (MIA).
 
The majority of people, even many who work in museums are not entirely sure of what curators do. Drawing on his recent experiences at the Museum of Islamic Art, William Greenwood will address one of the most public aspects of the curator’s role… that of putting together temporary exhibitions.
 
In this hangout, he will show how this happens, from the moment of inspiration which sets the process in motion, to the opening night of the show and beyond. From the glorious to the mundane, this is a curator’s-eye view of the life-cycle of an exhibition.

Wherever you are in the world, you can join the conversation. Just
write your questions and comments on this page and we will ask them to the curator during the live talk.

Tahitian Woman with a Flower, by Paul Gauguin, born on this day in 1848. Zoom into this gigapixel painting and see the brushstrokes! http://goo.gl/CSGp2 #firstfridayartwalk #art  

The +Serpentine Gallery, one of the top 10 most visited museums and galleries in #London , is available in #MuseumView : http://goo.gl/YXV21 
Walk around Herzog and de Meuron's pavilion in the heart of Hyde Park  from your desk! #architecture   #streetview  

What are the functions and role of museums? What are artists’ roles in museums?

Artist Sam Durant is joined by Toby Tannenbaum (+J. Paul Getty Museum) and Robert Sain (Centre for Living Arts), Pablo Helguera (Museum of Modern Art), and Jessica Cusick (City of Santa Monica) to discuss these questions and more. Expanding upon What #isamuseum? [www.isamuseum.org], a project by Durant that is part of the 2013 Getty Artists Program, this discussion focuses on the purpose, importance, and politics of museums. Bring your voice into the mix.

The last participant to our #WorldArtDay  Director's galleries project is +MALI - Museo de Arte de Lima: Natalia Majluf, Director of the Museo de Arte de Lima, picked 23 artworks to add to her personal gallery. Explore her selection now!  http://g.co/artproject/uypvj #art

The al Sabah Collection in Kuwait joined the Art Project last week! Discover 42 works of the collection in high resolution at http://g.co/artproject/b8bvy Tell us which one you prefer and why! #art #kuwait

[Art Talk] - If you're interested in #photography  and missed this: the recorded video of last week's Art Talk with Met curator Jeff Rosenheim about photography during war time is on YouTube! #arttalks   #photojournalism #art   #hangoutsonair   

Start a virtual tour of the Fondation Beyeler in Switzerland and discover the galleries of this internationally renown museum of modern art thanks to #StreetView ! http://goo.gl/lj5py #museumview   #museums   #contemporary #art  

On May 23, at 12:00 p.m. EST, join our #ArtTalk with Jeff Rosenheim, Curator in Charge, Department of Photographs, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Rosenheim will discuss photography during war time in relation to the Met’s current exhibition “Photography and the American Civil War.”  The talk will focus on why the American Civil War itself was a boon to the emerging field of photography and the evolving role of the camera during the nation’s bloodiest war.
Submit your questions by May 17th to be in the hangout: http://goo.gl/o7fyo

LAUNCH - Today, a veritable art feast is added to the Art Project! 
Photographs by Mario Testino (http://g.co/artproject/9g4pv) focusing on Peruvian culture, 16 new gigapixel paintings including Munch’s “The Scream” (http://g.co/artproject/7hp4), 20 new virtual visits of museums on Street View (http://goo.gl/SZ4R3), such as the Fondation Beyeler Museum... Read more on our blog: http://goo.gl/emiMc #art   #artstech  

On May 23, at 12:00 p.m. EST, join our #ArtTalk with Jeff Rosenheim, Curator in Charge, Department of Photographs, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Rosenheim will discuss photography during war time in relation to the Met’s current exhibition “Photography and the American Civil War.”  The talk will focus on why the American Civil War itself was a boon to the emerging field of photography and the evolving role of the camera during the nation’s bloodiest war.
Submit your questions by May 17th to be in the hangout: http://goo.gl/o7fyo

Thank you to everyone who watched and commented the live Art Talk with +Museo Nacional de Arte MUNAL today!
If you missed the broadcast, you can watch the recorded video anytime on YouTube. #InternationalMuseumDay  

May 18th is International Museum Day, so each day this week we're going to be highlighting some of Street View's trips to these treasure troves of culture, art and history as we go indoors with Museum-view. We'll be using the hash tag #museumview , if you'd like to contribute your own finds. 

Today's scene is from the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Click on the following link to be taken to the Street View image where you can explore further. http://goo.gl/maps/ZpvWg   #streetview   #internationalmuseumday  

If you'd like to explore this museum in more detail, check out the +Google Art Project website for even more treats. http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/national-gallery-of-australia-canberra/museumview/

Some news from our friends at +MoMA Learning after their #ArtTalk on how museums teach art online (http://youtu.be/pHfH-Y8rT9k)
First, there is good news for teachers all over the world: The Museum of Modern Art has partnered with Coursera to offer free professional development courses on the Coursera MOOC platform beginning July 29 with “Art and Inquiry: Museum Teaching Methods for your Classroom.” More information about this initiative on the KQED/Mindshift blog: http://goo.gl/DEu44 
Second, you don’t have to be a teacher to learn about art online: MoMA’s summer online courses are open to all for registration: www.moma.org/coursesonline All instructor-led courses begin June 10! 

The Mall in St. James's Park by Thomas Gainsborough +The Frick Collection, born on this day in 1727. Explore this painting and 100 other works by the artist in high resolution: http://g.co/artproject/d79r

Happy birthday Georges Braque, born on this day in 1882!
Discover Fox created by the French Cubist painter in 1911 from +The Blanton Museum of Art: http://g.co/artproject/6rqx9

May 16th at 12pm E.S.T., we will be celebrating International Museum Day with the +Museo Nacional de Arte MUNAL in Mexico, who will be giving an Art Talk about: “New technologies, new audiences: does the museum respond to the demands and conditions of the contemporary world?”

Don’t miss this Art Talk which will see a panel of speakers from the Museo Nacional de Arte discuss the challenges and opportunities of the museum within contemporary society. Can the museum shy away from social engagement in the construction of meaning in today´s world?

They will pose questions regarding the traditional ways of approaching art versus new trends in the development of museum public programs. What happens when the person and the museological proposal encounter?

Ask your questions on this page and we will ask them to the speakers during the Art Talks!

Speakers:
Sara Baz, Head of Museum Operations
Lluvia Sepúlveda, Head of Curators and Collection Management
Ricardo Rubiales, Head of Educational Resources
Nina Shor, Online Education Portal Coordinator
Andrea Villalba, Head of Communication and Digital Media
Jessica Lewinsky, Collections Conservator

About International Museum Day
Google Art Project is joining the celebrations for International Museum Day, which was established by the International Council of Museums (ICOM)  to encourage public awareness of the role of museums in the development of society. Organised around May 18th, International Museum Day gathers museums from all around the world who interpret an issue that concerns all cultural organisations.

#hangoutsonair   #hoa   #arttalks  

Missed yesterday's Art Talk with +Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) about "Behind the Scenes: curating an exhibition, from start to finish"? You can watch the recorded hangout anytime on YouTube. #arttalks   #curating #art #musesocial  

Marzia Niccolai and Mia Islamicart

User Gallery Spotlight: Dramatic Waters,12 artworks by 12 artists. Explore the whole selection at: http://goo.gl/Rn9UW #art

The +Nasjonalmuseet in Norway recently brought part of their extensive collections of #art , architecture and #design  to the site. Discover it: http://goo.gl/UMO2b #museum  

Is Contemporary Art for You?
MOCA’s mission is to be the defining museum of contemporary art, but how do we come to a shared understanding of art produced during our lifetime?

Join artists Gary Baseman (http://goo.gl/bmhHh) and Amanda Ross-Ho (http://goo.gl/1ml0f), and MOCA Curator Bennett Simpson for a conversation about how their work functions in different cultural contexts and what role the audience plays in the production and presentation of art. Moderated by Bret Nicely, MOCA Associate Director of Digital Media.

Join the conversation and ask questions to the speakers on this page, using the hashtag #arttalks

A View from Hampstead Heath by John Constable, born on 11 June 1776. View this painting from the Yale Center for British Art in high resolution: http://goo.gl/lHr0N 
What's the sky like where you live? #art #sky #weather   

"Art does not have a target age - art is art"- watch the @GettyMuseum panel on what #isamuseum live on Hangout Art Talk with the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles  #arttalks

What are the functions and role of museums? What are artists’ roles in museums?

Artist Sam Durant is joined by Toby Tannenbaum (+J. Paul Getty Museum) and Robert Sain (Centre for Living Arts), Pablo Helguera (Museum of Modern Art), and Jessica Cusick (City of Santa Monica) to discuss these questions and more. Expanding upon What #isamuseum? (www.isamuseum.org), a project by Durant that is part of the 2013 Getty Artists Program, this discussion focuses on the purpose, importance, and politics of museums. Bring your voice into the mix.

[Launch] We’ve released a new design of the site with a faster navigation and new functionality! For example, you can now filter any list of artwork around artists, place, date, related events and more with the Refine tool. Check it out now! http://goo.gl/QoA66 
#art #artstech #edtech

#SeparatedAtBirth  

Two portraits by Pontormo: Separated at birth? Reunited by the +Google Art Project! We are delighted to welcome our friends from the +Städel Museum to the Google Art Project, shrinking the distance between Los Angeles and Frankfurt to a few pixels.

http://bit.ly/10QMPmK

Join curators from the Guggenheim, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston for a Q&A about James Turrell, the renowned light artist whose works are on view this summer at all three museums. Questions will be crowd-sourced prior to the talk. The live video discussion featuring Nat Trotman, Associate Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Alison de Lima Greene, Curator of Contemporary Art and Special Projects, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and Christine Y. Kim, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art will be moderated by Wil Hylton, Contributing Writer, New York Times Magazine.

Submit your question on James Turrell by Thursday, June 20, 5 pm EDT via the Turrell Trifecta submission form : http://goo.gl/5zsE7
Follow #ArtTalks (http://goo.gl/J60w7) and the Guggenheim (http://goo.gl/PTw2I), MFAH (http://goo.gl/YdLrX), and LACMA on Google+ for updates.

Join us Monday 17 June at 2 pm GMT for the live Art Talk " Behind the Scenes: curating an exhibition, from start to finish " with William Greenwood, Curator of Metalwork, +Museum of Islamic Art (MIA).
 
The majority of people, even many who work in museums are not entirely sure of what curators do. Drawing on his recent experiences at the Museum of Islamic Art, William Greenwood will address one of the most public aspects of the curator’s role… that of putting together temporary exhibitions.
 
In this hangout, he will show how this happens, from the moment of inspiration which sets the process in motion, to the opening night of the show and beyond. From the glorious to the mundane, this is a curator’s-eye view of the life-cycle of an exhibition.

Wherever you are in the world, you can join the conversation. Just
write your questions and comments on this page and we will ask them to the curator during the live talk.

"Macrocromía" by Lina Sinisterra, 2009 - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bogotá.
Zoom in to see the details: http://g.co/artproject/h7vke #art #contemporary #colombia  

What are the functions and role of museums? What are artists’ roles in museums?

Artist Sam Durant is joined by Toby Tannenbaum (+J. Paul Getty Museum) and Robert Sain (Centre for Living Arts), Pablo Helguera (Museum of Modern Art), and Jessica Cusick (City of Santa Monica) to discuss these questions and more. Expanding upon What #isamuseum? [www.isamuseum.org], a project by Durant that is part of the 2013 Getty Artists Program, this discussion focuses on the purpose, importance, and politics of museums. Bring your voice into the mix.

American dancer Isadora Duncan was born on 26 May 1877. Here is the photograph Isadora Duncan in the Parthenon, Athens by Edward Jean Steichen, 1921 - The Toledo Museum of Art. Enjoy this work in high resolution and find out more about it: http://g.co/artproject/2y28
#art   #photography   #dance  

Sixtine Fabre, Taylor Newby, William Metropolitan, and Greg Wright

The Hungry Lion Attacking An Antelope by Henri Rousseau, born 21 May 1844: http://g.co/artproject/mrrwv Zoom into this new gigapixel painting from the Fondation Beyeler to see the brushstrokes and the details! #art   #zoom  

Last month, the +MALI - Museo de Arte de Lima joined our #worldartday  celebration and the Director of the Museum, Natalia Majluf shared her personal selection of artworks for the occasion. Explore her user gallery at: http://g.co/artproject/uypvj - Which object do you prefer? #art   

#Venice has fascinated and inspired artists through the centuries. Joseph Mallord William Turner, Claude Monet, and John Singer Sargent were among the painters who followed in Canaletto’s footsteps in depicting the lagoon and canals, Saint Mark’s Square and the Doge’s Palace.

For #InternationalMuseumDay , discover their visions of Venice from museums around the world in this +Google Art Project gallery:
http://www.googleartproject.com/galleries/6712212/33758153/

Andrea Valencia, James Davis, and Ricardo Rubiales

May 16th at 12pm E.S.T., we will be celebrating International Museum Day with the +Museo Nacional de Arte MUNAL in Mexico, who will be giving an Art Talk about: “New technologies, new audiences: does the museum respond to the demands and conditions of the contemporary world?”

Ask your questions on this page and we will ask them to the speakers during the live!

Don’t miss this Art Talk which will see a panel of speakers from the Museo Nacional de Arte discuss the challenges and opportunities of the museum within contemporary society. Can the museum shy away from social engagement in the construction of meaning in today´s world?
They will pose questions regarding the traditional ways of approaching art versus new trends in the development of museum public programs. What happens when the person and the museological proposal encounter?

Speakers:
Lluvia Sepúlveda, Head of Curators and Collection Management
Ricardo Rubiales, Head of Educational Resources
Nina Shor, Online Education Portal Coordinator
Andrea Villalba, Head of Communication and Digital Media
Jessica Lewinsky, Collections Conservator

About International Museum Day
Google Art Project is joining the celebrations for International Museum Day, which was established by the International Council of Museums (ICOM)  to encourage public awareness of the role of museums in the development of society. Organised around May 18th, International Museum Day gathers museums from all around the world who interpret an issue that concerns all cultural organisations.

What are the functions and role of museums? What are artists’ roles in museums?

Artist Sam Durant is joined by Toby Tannenbaum (+J. Paul Getty Museum) and Robert Sain (Centre for Living Arts), Pablo Helguera (Museum of Modern Art), and Jessica Cusick (City of Santa Monica) to discuss these questions and more. Expanding upon What #isamuseum? [www.isamuseum.org], a project by Durant that is part of the 2013 Getty Artists Program, this discussion focuses on the purpose, importance, and politics of museums. Bring your voice into the mix.

What are the functions and role of museums? What are artists’ roles in museums?

Artist Sam Durant is joined by Toby Tannenbaum (+J. Paul Getty Museum) and Robert Sain (Centre for Living Arts), Pablo Helguera (Museum of Modern Art), and Jessica Cusick (City of Santa Monica) to discuss these questions and more. Expanding upon What #isamuseum? (www.isamuseum.org), a project by Durant that is part of the 2013 Getty Artists Program, this discussion focuses on the purpose, importance, and politics of museums. Bring your voice into the mix.

Pedro Pérez Castro, Director of +Museo Art Nouveau y Art Déco. Casa Lis, created his own user gallery of objects from the Art Project for #worldartday . Discover his selection in high resolution here http://g.co/artproject/4cwuy 

Here is what Pedro Pérez Castro says about it:  
For a curator it is always difficult to choose only five pieces from all our collections. These art works that I have selected here respond to a personal judgment after having considered the quality, uniqueness and conditions.

Thank you all for trying to #guesstheartist in this round of  #gaptrivia . The answer is Joseph Stella and this painting is Der Rosenkavalier. It was brought online by the +Whitney Museum of American Art, you can zoom in & see the details at: http://g.co/artproject/n55kt