The Work of Art in the Age of Google
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Uffizi Museum/Google Art Project
On Art Project, you can look closely at the details of works like Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus.”
By ROBERTA SMITH
Published: February 6, 2011
If art is among your full-blown obsessions or just a budding interest,Google, which has already altered the collective universe in so many ways, changed your life last week. It unveiled its Art Project, a Web endeavor that offers easy, if not yet seamless, access to some of the art treasures and interiors of 17 museums in the United States and Europe.