Museums Make Some Art Available, Free of Charge
Artinfo’s Tyler Green is in a tizzy. Green,
Every once and a while an art museum (or two or three) does something so jaw-droppingly clever that in hindsight it seems like an obvious thing to do. So it is with the decision by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum and various entities at Yale University to make high-resolution images of art from their collections available for anyone to use, for any purpose, copyright-free.
Don’t get too excited. Most, if not all of the works, are already in the public domain, and unless I missed it, you’re not going to find any Mike Kelley or Gerhard Richter in there. Here’s a list of what LACMA makes available.
- African Art
- American Art
- Art of the Ancient Americas
- Art of the Ancient Near East
- Art of the Pacific
- Chinese and Korean Art
- Costume and Textiles
- Decorative Arts and Design
- Egyptian Art
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Greek and Roman
- Islamic Art
- Japanese Art
- Latin American Art
- Photography
- Prints and Drawings
- South and Southeast Asian Art
Tags: academic use, art museums, educational use, fair use, intellectual property
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