Art and Street Art Museums Tour on Google Street View
Google has been adding building interiors to its streetviews on Google Maps for years, and Google Arts & Culture (the program that gave you the ability to “find your art double” ) collects all the arts you might see in streetviews: museums, the famous architecture, street art and art exhibitions that have already closed in real life. Here’s a guide to Google’s virtual art collection.
The Street View Gallery on Google Arts & Culture brings together the best interactive tours of renowned art museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the J. Getty Museum and the Uffizi Galleries , as well as history museums, landmarks and natural attractions. Peculiarities.
Google has put together six indoor temporary exhibitions at the Street View Gallery, which is the perfect use of Street View to immerse you in a way that flat photographs can’t do and see large art installations that have since been dismantled. You can stroll the orange floating piers of Christo and Jeanne-Claude in northern Italy, wander through 36 Parisian apartments built on by graffiti artists shortly before demolition, or take a look at Cara Walker’s Marvelous Sugar Baby .
Among its street art collections (mostly in the form of traditional photo galleries), Google Arts & Culture includes a series of painted water towers in Street View that allow rooftop towers to be viewed in their urban context. Interestingly, it looks like some of the water towers on display have disappeared, and the built-in street views show new construction, while the narrative is about the disappeared work of art both in real life and on Google.
Another Google Street Art project includes multiple mural and graffiti tours with street views . This collection is also slowly giving way to link rot, as the Internet is slowly collapsing, like any ruin in the real world. Ars longa, interneta brevis.
Finally, the external project The Agorophobic Traveler collects street view scenes as Instagram snapshots. The Artsy art blog has some interesting points .