{"id":1597,"date":"2013-03-19T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2013-03-19T19:01:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T02:01:41","slug":"lacma-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/lacma-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"LACMA Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"

LACMA Collections<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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LA County Museum Makes 20,000 Artistic Images Available for Free<\/span><\/h1>\n
by\u00a0Kate Rix<\/span><\/div>\n
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art\u00a0houses the largest American collection of art west of Chicago. Developed as an \u201cencyclopedic\u201d museum\u2014its collections represent nearly every human civilization since recorded time\u2014LACMA\u2019s eclectic holdings span from\u00a0<\/span>art of the ancient world\u00a0<\/a>to\u00a0<\/span>video installations<\/a>. Like all great public collections, LACMA sees its mission as providing the greatest possible access to the widest range of art.<\/span><\/p>\n

Two years ago LACMA made a relatively small number of its image holdings available for free download in an online library. From that beginning of 2,000 images, the museum recently expanded its downloadable collection by ten-fold, making 20,000 images of\u00a0artwork available for free<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This represents about a quarter of all the art represented on LACMA\u2019s site. They\u2019ve chosen images of artworks the museum believes to be in the public domain and developed a robust digital archive with a richer search function than most museums.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

LACMA\u2019s online collection (80,000 images altogether, including restricted use and unrestricted) is sorted by the usual curatorial terms (\u201cAmerican Art,\u201d \u201cArt of the Pacific\u201d and so on) but that\u2019s just one of many filtering options.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A search for works related to the word \u201croses\u201d can be done as a general search of all objects, turning up, among 268 other items, Toulouse-Lautrec\u2019s\u00a0Mlle Marcelle Lender<\/a><\/i>. This item happens to be available for free download. (Note the bloom in the Madamoiselle\u2019s cleavage to see why the image turned up in this search.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But the collection can be searched more narrowly by object type and curatorial area. There\u2019s also a cool option to search by what\u2019s on view now right now. This choice allows users to zero in on a specific building or floor of the museum\u2019s eight buildings. The collection can also be entered according to chronological era, from 10,000 BCE to the present day.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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LACMA Collections.   LA County Museum Makes 20,000 Artistic Images Available for Free by\u00a0Kate Rix The Los Angeles County Museum of Art\u00a0houses the largest American collection of art west of Chicago. Developed as an \u201cencyclopedic\u201d museum\u2014its collections represent nearly every human civilization since recorded time\u2014LACMA\u2019s eclectic holdings span from\u00a0art of the ancient world\u00a0to\u00a0video installations. Like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p834Wu-pL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1599,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions\/1599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}