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What Would You Save From a Burning House?
Hannah Queen's contribution to The Burning House (image via the-burning-house.com) The Burning House is a website and project that presents photographers showing what they would save from their house...
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New App Lets You Crowdsource the DJ
Anthm lets you vote on the music, for a truly democratic party. Click to enlarge. LOS ANGELES — We all know what it’s like. You’re at a party, and the music’s great, but you wish they’d play a...
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Brooklyn Museum Returns to Crowd Curating with “Go”
Last Friday the Brooklyn Museum announced plans for Go, a new crowd-curated exhibition happening this fall and winter. For those familiar with the museum’s work over the past few years, the use of...
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Take a Tour of Detroit with an Insider’s View
LOS ANGELES — Detroit has captured the world’s imagination, a symbol of decadence and decay in the heart of a superpower. It’s been a magnet for artists and urban explorers, with a number of amazing...
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Why Crowd-Sourced Voting Can’t Win
Meleko Mokgosi’s “Pax Kaffraria: Sikhuselo Sembumbulu” (2012) at the Hammer Museum, for which he won the first Mohn Award (image via www.madeinla2012.org) By now the votes are in, and the winner of...
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Slimming Down the Short Lists: A Look at 10 ArtPrize Finalists
Most of the year, the art world’s attention is focused on the big, international cities: New York, London, Miami Beach, LA, Basel, etc. But starting in the fall of 2009, ArtPrize put the lesser-known...
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Can a Crowdsourced Narrative of Failure Do Anything But Fail?
Archive of Failure website (screenshot by the author) In looking to create a visual of the word “failure,” the Archive of Failure seems almost designed to fail. The project, funded by the Arts...
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Italy Crowdsources Art Conservation Decision
The winner: Perugino’s Madonna and child, dating to the end of the 15th century (via Italian Culture Minister Massimo Bray on Twitter) Stories of Italy struggling to save its cultural heritage amid...
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National Exhibition Will Fill US Billboards with Art
Romare Bearden’s “Soul Three” (1968) is one of the artworks chosen by the Dallas Museum of Art. (image via arteverywhereus.org) Five American art museums and the Outdoor Advertising Association of...
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Crowdsourcing the Bronze Age in a New Platform for Archaeology
Detail of a British Museum index card for a winged axe found in France (via MicroPasts) Some of the most significant records on human history remain inaccessible to a wide audience. A new open source...
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The Call to Action to Save Digitized Books from Oblivion
Antebellum paper doll clothes in ‘The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott (v.7)’ (1833) (courtesy Alderman Library, University of Virginia) Digitization may be increasing the accessibility to the...
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Assert Your 21st Amendment Freedom by Transcribing Wine Label History
A wine label from the 1950s in the Maynard Amerine collection at UC Davis (courtesy UC Davis University Library) More than 5,000 wine labels at the University of California, Davis, chronicle the...
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Help the New York Public Library Geotag Enigmatic NYC Photos
Mapping an image on the New York Public Library Space/Time Directory’s Surveyor (screenshot by the author for Hyperallergic) The New York Public Library (NYPL) has thousands of photographs and...
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