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Even if you're not hopping on a plane anytime soon, it's still possible to take a peek at fantastic museum exhibits in distant countries remotely online. Today, I have some photos to share with you from Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum. The museum's new exhibition showcases the breadth of the museum’s collections, which include over 90,000 works of painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, Read more
Want to see Natalie Portman and Michelle Williams kick, shake, and trip one another over a bottle of perfume? Then the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art has just the "commercial" for you. Right now on their blog Curve, the LA MOCA is showing artist Francesco Vezzoli's minute-long spot for fictional perfume Greed. The short film takes license with many of the conventions of beauty Read more
A new exhibit is set to debut at the Smithsonian next month, and it needs your input! The Art of Video Games exhibit will chronicle the 40-year evolution of video games as art. And in order to create the most representative list of video games loved by Americans, the Smithsonian is asking people to vote for their favorites. Video game fans can vote online for up to 80 titles out of 240 choices Read more
Over the past few years, Google Maps and Street View have made huge progress in bringing us to faraway places we might not otherwise get to visit. Now, its new Art Project provides street view-style access to 1,000 pieces of art in 17 different museums around the world. Art is displayed via high resolution photos through Picasa. So hi-res, in fact, that Google refers to the technology as Read more
Paris's Musée d'Orsay, renowned for its collection of Impressionist paintings, is about to become home to a rather different kind of legendary work. From January 6 through 28, the side of the museum will be covered with an enormous Chanel No.5 bottle made entirely from 1,200 hand-assembled sequins. The ad itself is going to be absolutely massive as well, covering 2,890 square feet of the Read more
If you know the way to San Jose (or just happen to live nearby) there's a really fun workshop running at the city's Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum and Planetarium on the second Sunday of every month. Egyptian Oils and Perfumes allows olfaction addicts of all ages to learn about the oils and perfumes popular in Ancient Egyptian times. Whether you're interested in what kind of oils the priests of Ra Read more
Set your sights on a day of discovery. If your children were mesmerized by the dinosaurs, spaceships, sculptures, and animals in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, you don't have to venture to Washington DC to re-create the experience. Smithsonian magazine is working with more than 1,000 museums nationwide to offer admission to anyone presenting a free downloadable pass on Museum Read more
The International Design Museum in Munich, Pinakothek der Moderne, just launched a debut exhibition dedicated to democratic design, which features the work of Swedish furniture giant Ikea. The themes of the exhibit include design process, the DIY principle of Ikea, and sustainability and ecology. Furniture from the 1950s through present day is on display. According to Ikea, furniture design has Read more
If you happen to be in Liverpool England and plan to check out the Gustav Klimt exhibition at the Tate Liverpool, you can watch the exhibition's multimedia tour on your iPhone or iPod Touch! And for those of you who don't have an iPhone or Touch just yet, the museum is providing iPod Touch players to rent as well. You can actually watch it from anywhere, but the iPhone podcast was created to Read more
On Sunday, San Francisco added another well-designed, eye-catching museum to its roster of cool, well-designed museums (my favorite up to now has been the de Young). The design of the Contemporary Jewish Museum took what was once a power company substation and births something completely different. Architect Daniel Libeskind, who previously built the Jewish Museum Berlin, shows a talent for Read more
