Art
Help the New York Public Library Geotag Enigmatic NYC Photos
The New York Public Library has thousands of historical photographs and illustrations of NYC that you can help geotag with a new tool called "Surveyor."
Crowd Sourcing
Art
Assert Your 21st Amendment Freedom by Transcribing Wine Label History
More than 5,000 wine labels at the University of California, Davis, chronicle the industry from the 1800s to the 1950s, before and after Prohibition in the United States.
Books
The Call to Action to Save Digitized Books from Oblivion
Digitization may be increasing the accessibility to the history of literature, but there is something lost about the book as a physical object.
Art
Crowdsourcing the Bronze Age in a New Platform for Archaeology
Some of the most significant records on human history remain inaccessible to a wide audience. A new open source crowdsourcing platform called MicroPasts is looking to involve online amateurs in collaborations with professional archaeologists to create digital records of archive collections.
News
National Exhibition Will Fill US Billboards with Art
Five American art museums and the Outdoor Advertising Association of America will mount a nationwide public art exhibition this summer. Art Everywhere will bring reproductions of some 50 artworks from the museums' collections — chosen how else but through an online public vote — to billboards, subwa
News
Italy Crowdsources Art Conservation Decision
Stories of Italy struggling to save its cultural heritage amid governmental dysfunction and a lack of funds are commonplace these days. But tales of the Italians getting creative with their efforts have been springing up too, and a piece from NPR yesterday points to another example: a program called
Art
Can a Crowdsourced Narrative of Failure Do Anything But Fail?
In looking to create a visual of the word "failure," the Archive of Failure seems almost designed to fail. The project, funded by the Arts Council's Grants for The Arts in the United Kingdom, is crowdsourcing an online and print narrative of anyone's idea of what the word failure is, with "no curati
Art
Slimming Down the Short Lists: A Look at 10 ArtPrize Finalists
Most of the year, the art world's attention is focused on the big, international cities: New York, London, Miami Beach, LA, Basel, etc. But starting in the fall of 2009, ArtPrize put the far lesser-known city of Grand Rapids, Michigan on the art world map. ArtPrize quickly became famous in part for
Opinion
Why Crowd-Sourced Voting Can't Win
By now the votes are in, and the winner of LA's inaugural Mohn Award has been announced: Botswana-born painter Meleko Mokgosi will receive $100,000 over the next two years, and a monograph will be published about his work. The Mohn Award, which is being funded by LA philanthropists and collectors Ja
Opinion
Take a Tour of Detroit with an Insider's View
LOS ANGELES — One Day in Detroit is a crowdsourced tour guide experience with a simple goal.
News
Brooklyn Museum Returns to Crowd Curating with “Go”
Last Friday the Brooklyn Museum announced plans for Go, a new crowd-curated exhibition happening this fall and winter. For those familiar with the museum's work over the past few years, the use of crowd curating shouldn't come as much of a surprise — in fact, if anything, it's become something of a
Opinion
New App Lets You Crowdsource the DJ
LOS ANGELES — We all know what it's like. You're at a party, and the music's great, but you wish they'd play a different song. But maybe other people won't like that song. And then someone more vocal jumps in and suggests some other song that's not so great. Okay, maybe it's not that complicated. Bu