Deloney Newkirk Galleries Blog

There’s a great article by Virginia Heffernan in today’s New York Times magazine. Ms Heffernan writes an ongoing feature titled “The Medium” and this week she takes a look at some applications of digital technology to art.

Want a high resolution image of Monet’s Water Lilies on your mobile phone? The article talks about the Boston Museum of Fine Arts project to photograph high resolution photographs of its’ entire collection of 350,000 works. You can visit their site at mfamobile.mfa.org and download some masterpieces directly to your phone’s home screen. Monet-To-Go anyone?

Ms. Heffernan also writes about an incredibly detailed photograph of Davinci’s “Last Supper”. The photograph is made up of 16 billion pixels. It shows such amazing details that as you zoom in you can see individual flecks of paint. If you don’t want to stand in line in Milan, you can see this icon of Western art by visiting The Last Supper.
To read all of Ms Heffernan’s article go to The Medium Blogs.