July 31, 2005
Slate launches unauthorized audio museum guides
 Online magazine Slate is launching a series of free audio tours you can download to your iPod or other mp3 player.
The first in the series is a 20-minute set from Slate art critic Lee Siegel on the most underrated and under-appreciated works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's modern art gallery.
Their pitch:
Museums, historical sites, and the companies that produce their audio tours aren't completely honest with you. They can't very well say things like "critics think this work is terrifically overrated, but we keep it on the wall because we sell a thousand posters of it a day," or "we know this sketch looks profoundly boring, but here's why it's the most interesting thing you'll see all day," or "we only hang this painting here because old Mrs. Dimbledumble wouldn't have donated the new East Wing otherwise."
They can't say things like that, but we can. Slate's following in the steps of Marymount Manhattan College students, whose ArtMobs project earlier this year produced unauthorized guides to the Museum of Modern Art.
(Link found via Jaunted.)
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July 31, 2005 04:51 PM in Cheap Stuff, Museums, Techology
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