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Louvre makes its entire collection available online

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Re: Louvre makes its entire collection available online

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I know you’re joking but lots of people still struggle with the reason why NFTs exist, including Apple’s unofficial PR department John Gruber. But it seems he finally understood it now thanks to this article: https://jackrusher.com/journal/what-does-it-mean-to-buy-a-gi... [0] https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/03/26/rusher-nfts

> The most expensive autograph ever sold as of the writing of this essay is John Lennon’s signature on a copy of Double Fantasy that he signed the day he died. It fetched $900,000 at auction in 2010. People imho buy the "uniqueness" of an item. This is why a poster of "the Kiss" by Klimt costs $10 and the original costs a $gazillion. The article mentions an autograph of Lennon. Not just any autograph, but one on the…

Uniqueness is only one part of the equation though. Hand made + beautiful + unique = amazing. Ugly pixelated jpeg generated by 300 lines of python + uniqueness = ???

It's kinda like playing all the notes from a Mozart piece in a random order, you could argue all the ingredients are there, but it won't be a masterpiece.

People are delusional, they want all the fame and rewards while putting less and less effort in their craft, if we can even call that a craft anymore, I mean, look at that shit: https://opensea.io/collection/the-anime-girls

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Thought of the same, if no one else beats me i'll get started on this in a few hours

To everyone, the list has been created, the rest is easy :D https://github.com/sofixa/awesome-museums-online Tomorrow/early next week I'll throw in the boilerplate ( contributing.md, PR template, and see about organisation/generation/TOC/etc.) and then i'll start adding the mentions from this thread and others i know of. Once it's decent and ready for wide contributions, i'll post on HN, Reddit and co.

Initial version ready https://github.com/sofixa/awesome-museums-online, i'll keep adding museums ( from this thread and elsewhere) and sections

Re: Louvre makes its entire collection available online

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And here's a good accounting of the Mona Lisa's journey in hiding during WW2, and the existence of the other copies. https://www.artcuriouspodcast.com/artcuriouspodcast/1 It's underwhelming in real life, very small, dimly lit, under thick glass, teeming with tourists. Online art is a great endeavor but there's no context for art without the space in which it lives, and in this I think the Musée d'Orsay is the better…

If I have one day in Paris, it's definitely the Musée d'Orsay rather than the Louvre. Nothing against the Louvre of course, but the setting isn't really as good and you really have to plan where you spend your time.

I highly recommend The Musée Marmottan, probably my favorite in Paris. Small and intimate space, beautiful light, charming interior, and doesn't feel like a museum. The collection is beautiful and well worth the visit.

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I’m confused who this is for. It’s not the same experience seeing art online. Part of what makes the Louvre or other museums special is being in a beautiful and decorated historically important space. It puts you in a different mindset where you can wander, ponder, and appreciate. I’m no Luddite but a digital experience simply can’t recreate that, at least not today.

You literally satisfy the definition of a Luddite to a T, perhaps not in the most negative way, but some way nonetheless.

You can't do this here. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules.

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Which, if true, would be hugely ironic.

This museum became so full of art, the only thing it was afraid of was losing access to this art...which, eventually of course, it did. Unfortunately, it had many visitors who saw everything it had, then this visitors tried to visit its web site all at once and killed it in combined DOS attack. Ironic. It could enlighten others from ignorance... but not itself.

I was just making reference to the fact that the guy that started HN originally planned to get rich by putting art galleries online.
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