Google unveils a new tool that lets people use its StreetView interface to explore 17 of the world's most famous art museums. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has covered ...

Smart Partnership For Museums "We're sure many [museums] must see the idea as competition, since people can view artwork for free," blogs Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry at Business Insider. " But of course ...

If you thought Google Street View’s coverage was ubiquitous before, it’s now staking out new territory inside museums. Google Art Project provides virtual tours of 17 museums and art galleries around ...

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 ...

Google has massively expanded its Art Project, making visiting a museum on the other side of the world much easier. Armchair tourists can now explore paintings, sculptures, street art and gigapixel ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The University of Michigan Museum of Art has joined the Google Art Project. The online art gallery was launched two years ago and has grown from about a dozen museums to more ...

Street art, by its nature, is temporary. Always at risk of being painted over, knocked down or destroyed, street art is a product of its time and place, forever fleeting and ephemeral. That is until ...

Sometimes it’s appropriate to question whether beholding a famous work of art in person truly is an irreplaceable experience, said Tim Adams in the London Guardian. The unveiling of the Google Art ...

JERUSALEM (AP) – Until Tuesday, if history buffs wanted a glimpse of the Israel Museum’s vast collection _ including a 9,000-year-old carved human face found in the Judean Desert _ they would have to ...

CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - The first museum in the south is now one of the first museums on Google. The Gibbes Museum of Art in downtown is one of two southeast museums chosen to be a part of the Google ...