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Museum Lets Cell Phone Users View art by MMS

posted by martyb on Thursday July 20 2017, @01:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the send-me-a-sandwich dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has a new service that takes requests over SMS and sends them back over MMS:

Text 572-51 with the words "send me" followed by a keyword, a color, or even an emoji and you'll receive a related artwork image and caption via text message. For example "send me the ocean" might get you Pirkle Jones' Breaking Wave, Golden Gate; "send me something blue" could result in Éponge (SE180) by Yves Klein; and "send me 💐" might return Yasumasa Morimura's An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo (Collar of Thorns). Each text message triggers a query to the SFMOMA collection API, which then responds with an artwork matching your request.

Also in Smithsonian Magazine

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  • (Score: 2) by Lagg on Thursday July 20 2017, @02:56PM (2 children)

    by Lagg (105) on Thursday July 20 2017, @02:56PM (#541922) Homepage Journal

    I'm not sure what our murikan rules are about funding and public cost but I imagine it is much the same. Thing is though the museum in question is actually separate from Denver [wikipedia.org]. Which is a shit deal because as one can see by the picture it looks pretty interesting. Also the current prices aren't too bad. I saw $40 when I went. Must have been a special exhibit. Saw some Samurai war gear posters so maybe that was it. Then again maybe $18 is a crap price for what is offered. idunno, not art person.

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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday July 20 2017, @05:54PM (1 child)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday July 20 2017, @05:54PM (#542002) Journal

    Denver Art Museum is free the first Saturday of every month. [denverartmuseum.org]

    • (Score: 2) by Lagg on Thursday July 20 2017, @06:08PM

      by Lagg (105) on Thursday July 20 2017, @06:08PM (#542009) Homepage Journal

      This is the sort of thing I wish was advertised in Westword more. That's unfortunate. Though it apparently wouldn't include the interesting stuff [denverartmuseum.org] (damn this just reminds me it's been a year already)

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