Monday, June 7, 2010

More Art on Your iPhone

Can’t make it to Washington this summer for the Yves Klein exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden? Now you can tour the exhibition virtually, via the Hirshhorn’s first iPhone application.
Other museums have created iPhone apps based on exhibitions or their permanent collections. The Brooklyn Museum was among the first to do so. More recently, the Museum of Modern Art created an app illuminating one of the most famous paintings in its collection, van Gogh’s “Starry Night.”
But the Hirshhorn’s Yves Klein app is the first to be created by a Smithsonian art museum. Klein, who famously posed for a photograph that appeared to show him jumping out a window into the void, would no doubt be pleased to be the impetus for the Smithsonian’s leap into the future.

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