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GOOGLE GOES GLOBAL WITH EXPANDED ART PROJECT

Tuesday April 3: Google today announced a major global expansion of the Art Project, signing new partnerships with 151 partners in 40 countries.  From now on, with a few simple clicks of their fingers, art lovers will be able to discover not just paintings, but also sculpture, street art, and photographs. Creations from a wide variety of cultures and civilizations are represented, including Brazilian street graffiti, Islamic decorative arts and ancient African rock art.  The project has expanded dramatically. More than 30,000 objects are available to view in high resolution, up from 1,000 in the first version. Street View images now cover 46 museums, with more on the way.  A wide range of institutions, large and small, traditional art museums as well as less traditional settings for great art, are represented in the expanded Art Project. Click here and take a look at the White House in Washington D.C. Explore the collection of the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar. Continue the journey in India, exploring the Santiniketan Triptych in the halls of the National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi.

Beyond Art Project’s magic

   

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Nelson Mattos, VP Engineering, Google “Google is committed to bringing all types of culture online and making it accessible. The Art Project demonstrates how the Internet helps spread knowledge.” Amit Sood, Head of Art Project, Google “The Art Project is going global, thanks to our new partners from around the entire world. It’s no longer just about the Indian student wanting to visit Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It is now also about the American student wanting to visit the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi.” The Art Project illustrates Google’s commitment to bringing culture online and making it accessible the widest possible audience. Under the auspices of the Cultural Institute, Google is producing high resolution images of the Dead Sea Scrolls, digitizing the archives of famous figures such as Nelson Mandela, and creating 3D models of 18th century French cities.

KEY FEATURES OF THE NEW ART PROJECT:  

 

• Users may browse the content by the artist’s name, the artwork, the type of art, the museum, the country, the city and the collection. Google+ and video hangouts are integrated on the site, allowing viewers to create even more engaging personal galleries.

• A specially designed Street View ‘trolley’ took 360 degree images of the interior of selected galleries which were then stitched together, enabling smooth navigation of over hundreds of rooms within the museums. The gallery interiors can also be explored directly from within Street View in Google Maps.

• More than 30,000 artworks are featured in high resolution. Some have been photographed in extraordinary detail using super high resolution or ‘gigapixel’ photo capturing technology, enabling the viewer to study details of the brushwork and patina beyond that possible with the naked eye.

• An enhanced My Gallery feature allows users to select any of the 30,000 artworks - along with their favorite details - and ‘build their own personalised gallery. Comments can be added to each painting and the whole collection can then be shared with friends and family. It’s an ideal tool for students.

• The new Art Project includes other completely new tools called Explore and Discover. Users can find artworks by period, artist or type of artwork, displaying works from different museums around the world.

   

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Find out even more about Art Project on our new YouTube channel,

and explore the project at the www.googleartproject.com

A screenshot of the new Art Project version About Google Inc. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is a global technology leader focused on improving the ways people connect with information. Google’s innovations in web search and advertising have made its website a top internet property and its brand one of the most recognized in the world. For more information, visit www.google.com/about.html. Contacts: William Echikson bechikson@google.com 0032 475 66 97 36 Anne-Gabrielle Dauba Pantanacce presse-fr@google.com 0033 1 42 68 53 66

   

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APPENDIX

ART PROJECT: 151 PARTNERS IN 40 COUNTRIES

Country Partner name Argentina Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires

Australia

Australian Rock Art Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Museum Victoria Museum of Contemporary Art

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra National Gallery of Victoria

Austria Albertina, Vienna

Leopold Museums Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (Museum of Fine Arts)

Belgium Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

Brazil Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo

Canada Art Gallery of Ontario China Ullens Center for Contemporary Art

Colombia Museo Botero, Bogotá Museo Del Oro, Bogotá

Czech Museum Kampa, Prague The National Gallery in Prague

Denmark Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen Statens Museum fur Kunst

France

Musée d’Orsay, Paris Musée de l'Orangerie

Château de Fontainebleau Musée du quai Branly Palace of Versailles Château de Chantilly

Germany

Alte Nationalgalerie Altes Museum, Berlin

Gemäldegalerie Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin

Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf Pergamonmuseum

Grünes Gewölbe – Green Vault (Dresden) Kupferstich-Kabinett – Collection of Prints, Drawings and

Photographs Münzkabinett – Coin Cabinet

Rüstkammer und Türckische Cammer: Armoury and Turkish Chamber

Staatliche Ethnografische Sammlungen Sachsen - Saxonian Sate Collections of Ethnography Porzellansammlung – Porcelain Collection

Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon – Mathematical and Physical Salon

Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister – Old Masters Picture Gallery

Skulpturensammlung – Sculpture Collection Galerie Neue Meister – New Masters Gallery

   

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Museum für Sächsische Volkskunst mit Puppentheatersammlung - Saxon Folk Art Museum with

Puppet Theatre Collection Kunstgewerbemuseum – Museum of Decorative Arts

Greece Acropolis Museum

Benaki Museum of Greek Civilization Museum of Cycladic Art

Hong Kong Hong Kong Heritage Museum Hong Kong Museum of Art

Hungary Hungarian National Gallery Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

India National Gallery Of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi National Museum, Delhi

Indonesia Museum Nasional Indonesia Israel The Israel Museum

Italy Uffizi Gallery Musei Capitolini

Japan

Adachi Museum of Art Bridgestone Museum Ohara Museum of Art

Suntory Museum of Art The National Museum of Western Art

Tokyo National Museum

Mexico

Museo Frida Kahlo Museo Dolores Olmedo

Museo Nacional de Antropología, México Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL)

Netherlands

Gemeentemuseum Koninklijk Paleis Amsterdam The Kröller-Müller Museum

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rijksmuseum

Van Gogh Museum

New Zealand Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Te Papa

Norway The Munch Museum Peru MALI, Museo de Arte de Lima

Philippines Ayala Museum

Poland Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź The Wilanów Palace Museum

Portugal Museu Colecção Berardo

Qatar The Museum of Islamic Art, Doha Arab Museum of Modern Art, Mathaf

Russia

International Centre of the Roerichs The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

The State Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

The State Tretyakov Gallery Singapore National Heritage Board, Singapore

South Africa The Rock Art Research Institute, University of the

Witwatersrand, Johannesburg South African National Gallery

South Korea Korean Art Museum Association

Spain Fundación Santander

Institut Valencià d'Art Modern Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya

   

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Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao Museo Art Nouveau y Art Déco - Casa Lis

Museo Reina Sofia Museo Thyssen - Bornemisza

Sweden

The Royal Armoury, Sweden Skokloster Castle Hallwyl Museum

National Museums of World Culture Nationalmuseum Stockholm

Switzerland The Olympic Museum Taiwan National Palace Museum, Taiwan

Turkey Pera Museum, Istanbul Sakıp Sabancı Museum

U.S.

The Art Institute of Chicago The J. Paul Getty Museum

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

De Young Museum Denver Art Museum

Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Gibbes Museum of Art

Indianapolis Museum of Art The Jewish Museum New York

Los Angeles County Museum of Art MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC National Portrait Gallery

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Norman Rockwell Museum Philadelphia Museum of Art

Rubin Museum of Art SCAD Museum of Art

Smithsonian American Art Museum Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

The Frick Collection The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Toledo Art Museum The Brooklyn Museum

The White House San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)

Yale Center for British Art

The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum

UK

Dulwich Picture Gallery Imperial War Museum

Museum of London National Galleries of Scotland

National Gallery, London The Jewish Museum, London

British Council The Royal Collection, London

Tate Modern Tate Britain

Serpentine Gallery Victoria & Albert Museum

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

   

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ART PROJECT: 46 ARTWORKS AVAILABLE IN GIGAPIXELS

PARTNERS ARTWORK TITLE ARTISTES

Museum Kampa The Cathedral František Kupka

Palace of Versailles

Marie-Antoinette de Lorraine-Habsbourg, Queen of France, and her children

Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun

Alte Nationalgalerie In the Conservatory Edouard Manet

Gemäldegalerie Portrait of a Young Woman Petrus Christus Galleria degli Uffizi The Birth of Venus Boticelli

Van Gogh Museum The bedroom Vincent van Gogh

Rijksmuseum The Nightwatch Rembrandt

The State Tretyakov Gallery The Apparition of Christ to the People Aleksander Ivanov

The State Hermitage Museum Return of the Prodigal Son Rembrandt

Museo Thyssen Bornemisza Young Knight in a Landscape Vittore Carpaccio

Museo Reina Sofia The Bottle of Anís del Mono Juan Gris MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art The Starry Night Vincent van Gogh

The Frick Collection St. Francis in the Desert Giovanni Bellini

Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian The Princess from the Land of Porcelain James McNeill Whistler

The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Harvesters Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Tate Britain No Woman, No Cry Chris Ofili

National Gallery The Ambassadors Hans Holbein the Younger

Art Gallery of New South Wales Fire's on Arthur Streeton

National Gallery of Australia Warlugulong Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri

Museum of fine Art, Kunshistorisches Museum The Tower of Babel Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts The Fall of the Rebel Angels Pieter Bruegel the Elder Pinacoteca do Estado Saudade Almeida Júnior

MAM, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo Sem título Osgemeos

Musée d’Orsay Bal du moulin de la Galette Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Musée de l'Orangerie Paul Guillaume, Novo Pilota Amedeo Modigliani

Musée du quai Branly Masque de façade

Fontainebleau Louis XIV of France hunting near the Palace of Fontainebleau Pierre-Denis Martin

   

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Pergamonmuseum Lion relief from the Processional Way Unknown

Altes Museum Centaurs mosaic Unknown Acropolis Museum The Parthenon East Frieze, Block VI Unknown

National Museum Radha and Krishna in the boat of love Nihal Chand

National Gallery of Modern Art Santiniketan Triptych Tyeb Mehta Israel Museum Isaiah Scroll Unknown

Musei Capitolini Annunciation Garofalo Tokyo National Museum Maple Viewers Kano Hideyori

Adachi Museum of Art Autumn Leaves Yokoyama Taikan Museo Nacional de Antropología Piedra del Sol Unknown

KONINKLIJK PALEIS AMSTERDAM The Judgement of Solomon Artus Quellinus

Islamic Museum of Qatar Velvet with Female Figures Unknown

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

Bucentaur's return to the pier by The Palazzo decale

Giovanni Antonio Canal Canaletto

The State Russian Museum The Last Day of Pompeii Karl Briullov MNAC Altarpiece of Saint Vincent Bernat Martorell

White House Executive Office of the President Portrait of George Washington Gilbert Stuart

Art Institute of Chicago A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Georges-Pierre Seurat

Getty Center The Abduction of Europa Rembrandt