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The Met's latest exhibit puts oversharing on a pedestal
The rules were simple: For five months, 12 pairs of artists participating in the Metropolitan Museum's Talking Pictures: Camera-Phone Conversations Between Artists exhibit had to use their phones to take and share photos or videos with each other. Texts or captions were not allowed.
Use 375,000 images from the Met however you want, for free
If you want to use images of paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, like Woman with a Parrot by Gustave Courbet (above), you no longer have to worry about rights. All of the Met's approximately 375,000 public-domain artwork images are now available for free, unrestricted use. The new "Open Access" policy, based on Creative Commons Zero (CC0), means bloggers, schools and businesses alike can use them without even the need for attribution.
Bizet's "Carmen" sets record viewer mark for The Met: Live in HD
Still growing in its fourth season, The Metropolitan Opera is reporting a record high number of viewers for its live telecast of Carmen last Saturday. 240,000 worldwide sat in movie theaters for the high definition broadcast, with numbers expected to grow to 320,000 in tape delayed versions. We're still just Met Player online streaming fans, have any of you opted for a trip to the moviehouse over the PC monitor or a trip to New york to see things in person?
The Metropolitan Opera's HD broadcasts still growing in season four
Successful since it started a few years ago, The Metropolitan Opera is coming back with the fourth season of its The Met: Live in HD series. Starting October 10, this year's series expands to "nearly 500" theaters across the U.S. experiencing live and prerecorded high definition feeds several days a week. We'll probably just check out Aida via the streaming player at home , but for the full experience, hit the read link to find out where it's showing near you.
Metropolitan Opera makes its HD productions free to select K-12 schools
You just know that if times are tough for consumer electronics, they're really bleak for public schools. With that in mind, we're calling out the bright spot that is The Metropolitan Opera's "HD Live in Schools" program that since January 10th has been making its movie theater productions (in HD, naturally) of Met performances free to students, parents and teachers across 18 schools in 13 states. Better still, The Met plans on expanding the program to 180 schools across the US. Now we know that it's not every K-12 schooler that will appreciate opera, but the opportunity to take in some premium HD content for free is pretty sweet if you ask us; any students that get turned on to HD, opera or music in general are bonus. If nothing else, this has got to beat writing a report on what makes the A-B-B-A song form so darn catchy, right?
