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FBI’s New Stolen Art App Leaves a Lot to Be Desired
Users can search for stolen works and submit tips, all while navigating the aesthetic world — and technology — of a 1990s spy movie.
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You Can Now Report Stolen Art Using Interpol’s New App
Users can browse more than 50,000 objects reported stolen or upload their own images to check whether a work has shady provenance.
Art
A Follower-Free App Asks You to Photograph Moments You Normally Don’t Share
An app that lingers on the minutiae of your life.
Art
An App that Visualizes the Digital Hotspots and Voids Around You
The White Spots app visualizes the invisible digital networks around us, and maps your escape to a "white spot," where there is no reception or internet.
Art
Let Other Visitors' Stories Guide You Through Brooklyn Bridge Park
"HEAR THEIR THERE HERE" created by Geoff Sobelle for St. Ann’s Warehouse is a site-specific sonic experience for Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Art
An App Tells the Overlooked History of the Largest Slave Port in the Americas
The Museum of Yesterday is an augmented reality app that excavates the secret histories of Rio de Janeiro, including its major role in the transatlantic slave trade.
Art
Get a Call from a New York City Statue
The Talking Statues project gives 35 public monuments in New York City a voice, from Balto the dog to George Washington in Union Square.
Art
An Alarm Clock of Bird Songs, Culled from a Museum’s Archive
A new app by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History presents an alternative design to cacophonous alarms, allowing you to begin your day with a slew of bird songs instead.
Art
Explore a Growing Archive of American Gardens with a New Smithsonian App
Smithsonian Gardens launched a free app to share and collect American gardening stories, from 19th-century Detroit potato patches to community greenspaces in vacant lots.
Art
Tour New York’s Gilded Age Architecture with a New Museum App
“A Walk Through Gilded NY” is an audio and visual tour through the past and present of the city’s turn-of-the-century architecture.
In Brief
Search for Pies, Patterned Sweaters, and Anything Else with Google's Updated Art App
Since it launched the Google Art Project five years ago, Google's been pouring serious money and time into efforts to make art and culture accessible to everyone (who has the internet and appropriate devices, of course), from digitizing collections to offering virtual tours of museums.
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Pokémon Go Users Flock to Museums, Passing Picasso in Search of Pikachu
If you've visited a museum in the last few days and spotted larger-than-average groups of people wandering around and looking a tad lost, their eyes glued to their phones, you were likely witnessing the phenomenon of Pokémon Go.