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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, @06:01PM (1 child)

    by Lagg (105) on Thursday July 20 2017, @06:01PM (#542005) Homepage Journal

    Yes I too can google for museums in Arizona. But per above post I'm in Mohave County.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 20 2017, @08:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 20 2017, @08:57PM (#542056)

    That wasn't at all clear to me. I assumed that "AZ" meant the state of Arizona and that you were saying that there are few museums in the state, and that Kingman's model railroad museum is the pride of the state.

    Your county is close to Las Vegas, which is renowned for its vibrant art scene. For instance, late this afternoon there's the Drink 'n' Shrink SculpSure Event [allevents.in] at Las Vegas Laser and Lipo and in the evening there's Painting Live : The Airbrush Master [allevents.in] at the Skye Art Gallery (meet Paul Butvila!). Imagine that, lipo and airbrushing in one day.

    Tomorrow [allevents.in] it's free face-painting and balloon animals, then the Clark County Republican Party Celebration Dinner; and on Saturday, Daniel Miller's paintings of the Las Vegas homeless.