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The Art Institute of Chicago Has Put 50k High-Res Images Online
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#82The link to the Art Institute of Chicago: https://www.artic.edu/articles/713/behind-the-scenes-of-the-... From the link: Students, educators, and just regular art lovers might be interested to learn that we’ve released thousands of images in the public domain on the new website in an open-access format (52,438 to be exact, and growing regularly). Made available under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license, these ima…
Is it common that a museum can release photographs of the works like this? Aren't (maybe just more recent) works copyrighted in a way that would prevent a museum from doing this?
It’s complicated, and there are exceptions (archiving a deteriorating work for example) but in almost all cases it’s just expiry via passage of time.
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#83I'm glad they state on their website that the images are in the public domain. In a similar thread on HN some time ago, I was very surprised to learn some museums (and commenters) think that they own the copyright to high-resolution digital reproductions of their (pre-1923) collection: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17500312
Different countries, different laws.
Indeed, but for that specific case of the Van Gogh Museum in The Netherlands, the same principle from Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp. was reached in the Van Dale/Romme arrest [1] and has been upheld in other cases.
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#84That’s so cool! I really miss Chicago some days.
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I have long considered buying high end tvs just to use as slide show viewers in my house. I could probably justify it at this point with the number of available high quality images and the quality of screens. But I would really like a 250 ppi+ screen that is 40+ inches to pull the trigger.
you might want to consider the Samsung Frame TV: https://www.samsung.com/us/explore/the-frame/highlights/ 43" at 4K is 102 PPI, so I guess you would need a 16K TV to get 250+
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#86Cloudfront 504 error to https://www.artic.edu/collection?is_public_domain=1 ?
took a dump for me too when trying to search the gallery. its awesome and i love they are doing it!! now get your IT together ARTIC!!!
downvoted because...?
seriously try the search it just returns some json lol:
https://www.artic.edu/collection
(in other words there aren't "50,000 high res works online" if nobody can actually see them...)
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#87This is pretty incredible. There was once a time when the only way for the average person to see a beautiful painting was to go to church. Later on this role was taken up by art galleries. Now anyone can see this stuff from the comfort of their own home. What do you think this means for the future of art galleries? What are they for ? Different ones are answering this question in different ways. Some are reinventing…
> This is pretty incredible. ... Now anyone can see this stuff from the comfort of their own home.
Agreed. And moreover, the licensing intentionally allows reproductions, so you can print life-size posters of these pieces to hang at home, if you want.
> What do you think this means for the future of art galleries? What are they for?
Hasn’t the primary function of a gallery always been to sell art, more than to be a public museum for the average person? If you think about it that way, maybe having online galleries doesn’t necessarily affect brick and mortar galleries? Perhaps it’s possible that online galleries will push more people will see the premium value of owning original art?
> I am particularly interested in the destiny of galleries in smaller markets.
In theory, Chicago’s move here to release public domain images doesn’t change small galleries, right? Small galleries are showing & selling current work and more by local artists, work that is still under copyright.
As an artist, I hope that the rising tides lift all boats, that public and easy online access to a lot of art will be a force for art education and appreciation. But, who knows, maybe an online flood will have unintended negative consequences.
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Unfortunately the images cannot be downloaded from Google Art Project (original name). It's irritating having to jump over complicated hurdles to get a seamless hi-res image capture from Google Arts. It requires some messing about, but I previously managed to grab about 100 high res images, but it took ages and was not easy. They printed out nicely in the end though, so was worth it. A simple download link as seen on…
I was deeply involved in the project for 5 years and the reason you can't download from it is because museum partners don't want you to. All the image security you find there comes from partner requests. If it's irritating, don't blame Google.
No. Don't shift the blame to other parties. Google decided to play ball with all these external requests. Google owns the project. Google is the one to blame.
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#89This is pretty incredible. There was once a time when the only way for the average person to see a beautiful painting was to go to church. Later on this role was taken up by art galleries. Now anyone can see this stuff from the comfort of their own home. What do you think this means for the future of art galleries? What are they for ? Different ones are answering this question in different ways. Some are reinventing…
I don't think this kind of resource is going to decrease attendance at art museums. People who want to go are still going to go, but while I live near Washington D.C., and have been to the National Gallery of Art many times, there are hundreds or thousands of museums and art galleries in cities I will most likely never travel to.
I think it's reasonable to consider these digital resources as a supplement to, rather than a replacement of, visiting the gallery in person.
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#90Searched for Monet, the first three paintings result in internalservererror: https://www.artic.edu/collection?q=monet
Yeah, I found about 10% of the links of the random sampling of paintings I looked at (about 30) gave 404 errors.
The images are nice, and definitely suitable for desktop wallpaper, which is what I'm interested in, but they're not all that high-resolution. They seem to vary between 2k and 3k pixel resolution.