Google Collaborates with International Museums, Launches 'Art Project'

Thoughts of Walter Benjamin‘s famous essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction aside, yesterday Google launched Art Project, an online gallery holding a collection of art compiled across seventeen high-profile museums, ranging from London’s National Gallery to New York’s MoMA, the Met, and the Frick, to the Palace of Versailles. The site allows users to wander around the galleries, Google Street View-style, bouncing around from room to room and spinning in 360-degree circles.