This month The Metropolitan Museum of Art added its first art objects to the popular ArtShare application on Facebook.
ArtShare was developed last November at Brooklyn Museum. The application allows Facebook members to select art objects from participating museums and have them appear on their Facebook Profile page. Each time the profile is loaded a different work displays at random from the selections. Each entry (sample at right) features an image and accompanying catalog information.
Recently the Met joined with four other museums -- Indianapolis Museum of Art, Powerhouse Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Walters Art Museum -- to offer Facebook highlights from their respective collections. At this writing twenty-six MMA objects are available. (One each appears from Africa, the Pacific, and Precolumbian America.)
An additional feature allows Facebook members to upload their own art work and share it with other Facebook members.
- Read ArtShare on Facebook: A Progress Report (posted on the Brooklyn Museum blog Feb. 11, 2008)
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