In Brief
Thanks to a new virtual reality project launched this week by the Google Cultural Institute, you can now immerse yourself in one of Pieter Bruegel the Elder's most bizarre paintings and hang out with the peculiar creatures that cover its canvas.
Opinion
When the news broke yesterday that Google had a brand new logo — the biggest change to its visual identity since its inception in 1998 — the design twitterverse exploded with commentary about the thickness of the new letterforms and their conspicuous lack of serifs.
News
You may have thought Hieronymus Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights" could not get any more trippy, but researchers have developed new software that proves that yes, the Netherlandish painter's baffling triptych just needs a little bit of code to become a complete mind-bender.
In Brief
The Hardcore Architecture blog is using addresses to reveal, through Google Street View, the often mundane suburban architecture behind the '80s underground scene.
In Brief
The Google Cultural Institute, known for empowering internauts to Street View their way through museums and look very, very closely at digitized two-dimensional artworks, has ventured into the third dimension.
In Brief
Today is a glorious one for your idle time, as Google Maps made a function available to turn any street view into a game of Pac-Man.
Opinion
The cyberpunk literary tradition anticipated a series of real-world technical developments in which the digital and the spatial converge.
Art
Through more than 300 images now posted online, you can explore the vibrant activism of Buenos Aires street art from your computer.
Art
The Google Street View photos of Mexican police and army forces gathered on “100 mts” are raw and menacing.
Opinion
The future of art has arrived, and it looks ... not like James Franco dressed in drag, but like a software developer wearing a silly-looking pair of futuristic glasses. Yes, the future of art is a Glasshole, coming to a museum near you.
Opinion
Earlier today @museumnerd tweeted out a link to a view of Michael Heizer's land work "Double Negative" (1969) in Google Maps. Viewed in satellite, from high above, Heizer's 1,500-foot-long trenches looks almost incidental, like cuts made with scissors into the skin of the earth.
Art
In the Bay Area, where Silicon Valley's private-shuttle ingenues are a nightmare vanguard to low-income residents in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods, Google has taken the unprecedented step of directly leasing office space in one such area: San Francisco's Mission district.