GOOGLE VIEWS: Google Art Project

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Just as your browser's homepage can be a source of inspiration, so can the new tab page, since you probably open it quite often. How about some fine art throughout your day? Google's new Chrome extension delivers artwork from the likes of Van Gogh, Monet 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 travel to Jerusalem to see it. Now, through a CHICAGO (AP) -- High tech merged with high culture Tuesday at The Art Institute of Chicago when Google Inc. announced an upgrade to its google art project initiative, adding thousands of works in dozens more countries. The project provides access to more technologically refined google art project. This new program, the company said, “goes global.” The numbers alone speak for themselves. The project — which began in January 2011 and gave users access to artworks and views of galleries in 17 LONDON, Tuesday 1st February. Today Google unveiled the Art Project, a unique collaboration with some of the world's most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail. Over the While nothing can beat seeing a work of art in person, the google art project could be the next best thing for those without the time and money to pop on a plane and trade elbows with crowds of tourists looking to catch a glimpse of what some of the best .

This morning Google launched the Art Project. Basically the search giant brought their street view technology into museums around the globe, allowing you to walk around the museums, zoom in on artworks and discover the various environments as if you were At this point Google offers so many different services and products that it’s tough to keep track of them all, but the company is still bent on its original goal of digitizing all the world’s information. Today the company announced its new street art Google Street View can already drop users on the ground in faraway cities without going anywhere, and now Google Art Project is doing the same with some of the world's best museums. This isn't as simple as just seeing an image of a painting that you could Back in June, Google asked California-based artists to send in and you need to look no further than BMW and their world-famous “art cars” as proof of that, a project that saw some of the world’s greatest artists of their time do a complete .