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Google Updates Its Photo Search Engine to Make Photo Licensing Easier
The "Licensable" badge will now appear on images in Google searches, potentially helping photographers, publishers, and artists make money.
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2,500 Museums You Can Now Visit Virtually
If you’re feeling hungry for art while you’re stranded at home, here are our 12 selections out of 2,500 world-class museums and galleries that are now offering virtual tours and online collections.
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UNESCO and Google Demonstrate How Climate Change Threatens Five Heritage Sites
Heritage on the Edge, a collaboration between Google and UNESCO, highlights the ways that climate change threatens five existing heritage sites, including Rapa Nui, Easter Island, and Edinburgh.
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"Doodle for Google" Competition Asks K-12 Artists: How Do You Show Kindness?
The winner of this year’s competition will receive a $30,000 college scholarship and have their Google Doodle featured on the company’s homepage.
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New Online Exhibition Chronicles the Many Facets of Frida Kahlo’s Life and Work
Faces of Frida, a partnership between Google Arts & Culture and 33 partner museums, brings together some 800 artifacts from ultra-high resolution images of her work to personal objects and rarely-seen photos.
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Google Unveils Incredibly Detailed 3D Models of At-Risk Heritage Sites
"Open Heritage" features digitized, 3D models of over 25 locations from around the world, signaling the start of a major chapter for the field of digital archaeology.
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Why Google’s Art Selfie App Doesn’t Work in Texas and Illinois
Both states have strict user privacy laws governing the use of biometric identifiers like scans of facial geometry.
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Google App Matching Selfies with Historical Portraits Has Mixed Results But Is 100% Viral
A new feature of the Google Arts & Culture app promises to match users' selfies with similar faces in artworks, though the algorithm's questionable pairings are often just as interesting as its uncanny matches.
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A New Website Tells the Stories of Over 4,000 Lynchings in the United States
The Equal Justice Initiative, with the support of Google, launched an online interactive that visualizes lynchings from the Civil War to World War II in 20 American states.
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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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Why Museums Are Granting Google Free Access to Their Collections
Google Cultural Institute recently revealed that it has engineered the creatively named Google Art Camera: a custom-built camera intended to capture "ultra-high resolution 'gigapixel' images" of artworks in museums around the world.
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Artist Invites Havana Locals into His Studio for Free High-Speed Wifi
Artist Alexis Leiva Machado, who works under the pseudonym Kcho, has partnered with Google to bring high-speed wifi to the Cuban public at rates nearly 70 times faster than services currently available — and at no cost to users.