Over the past several months, new museums joining 1KM include: Ackland Art Museum, Art Gallery of NSW, CT Historical Society, Currier Art Museum, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Harn Museum of Art, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Kimbell Art Museum, Melbourne Museum, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, National Gallery of Victoria – Melbourne, Pera Museum – Istanbul, Queensland Art Gallery, Rijksmuseum, San Diego History Center, National Museum of Contemporary Art – Athens Greece, Telfair Museums, USC Libraries, and the Winnipeg Art Gallery.

Additionally the company formally announced the creation of the 1KM Network. Kirsten Soderlind, founder and Chief Creative Officer of 1000Museums said, “It has long been my dream to help museums share with art lovers around the world the wonderful art and knowledge that has long been confined to a single institution. For the past four years we have been building relationships and technology that supports that vision. As our network gets bigger our museums will share content in the form of images and information with each other and the public in a way that builds audience engagement and opens new revenue streams for museums.”

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About 1000Museums

1000Museums is dedicated to building the largest and most robust network of museums online in the world. Currently we have over 100 museums in the network including the Guggenheim, MFA Houston, LACMA and van Gogh Museum. We work closely with our network partners to clear rights around art, bring their art online and make it more easily accessible to the public. By offering archival quality reproductions of world-class art to museum and online visitors we help museums generate additional revenue from their most important asset and create new art lovers everywhere.

For additional information please contact Brendan Burns at 917-602-8043, or bburns@1000museums.com.

Explore Monet’s garden – right from your mobile!  The New York Botanical Garden’s App NYBG In Bloom–produced in collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art–allows you to explore the essential elements of Monet’s Garden, the re-creation of Monet’s garden at Giverny.

Toggle between photos of the plants that make up the Garden’s landmark exhibition and reproductions of Monet paintings in The Met’s collection. Links to the The Met’s website provide further insight into the artwork that was inspired by the Impressionist master’s love of plants and his garden at Giverny.

Feeling inspired? Pull up the Impressionist Lens feature within the app and start making your own photographic masterpieces in the style of Monet. Email your photographs to friends or share them on Twitter or Pinterest.

Christopher Lightfoot, Curator in the Department of Greek and Roman Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, offers insights on the Lod Mosaic, an ancient Roman mosaic from Lod, Israel.

A specialist on the subject of ancient glass and numismatics, Dr. Lightfoot oversaw the day-to-day management of the reinstallation of the New Greek and Roman Galleries that opened in April 2007.

Dr. Lightfoot was educated at the University of Oxford, he earned his doctoral degree in Ancient History with a dissertation about the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire. He was also the curator for the Lod Mosaic special exhibition at the Met in 2010–2011 and has written about the mosaic in the January/February 2011 issue of Minerva. This free program is made possible by Dr. Charles Cunningham who was a longtime friend and generous supporter of the Museum.

A type of pottery painting from ancient Greece that shows red figures against a black background.

The Brygos Painter is one of the best known red-figure vase painters of his era.  This scene of a symposium, or a Greek drinking party, shows a male guest who is reclining on a couch keeping time for a girl who dances.  Her cropped hair indicates that she is a slave.

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art welcomes all to celebrate the American spirit in a setting that unites the power of art with the beauty of landscape. The permanent collection features more than 400 works by American masters, ranging from the Colonial period through the current day, and highlighting the full scope of American art and history.

The Crystal Bridges app features a selection of audio tours of the Museum’s permanent collection, arranged around a variety of themes. Also included are maps of the Museum galleries and grounds, and helpful information about Museum services, amenities and programming.

Over three decades, Isabella Stewart Gardner traveled the world and worked with important art patrons and advisors Bernard Berenson and Okakura Kakuzo to amass a remarkable collection of master and decorative arts. In 1903, she completed the construction of Fenway Court in Boston to house her collection and provide a vital place for Americans to access and enjoy important works of art. Isabella Gardner installed her collection of works in a way to evoke intimate responses to the art, mixing paintings, furniture, textiles, and objects from different cultures and periods among well-known European paintings and sculpture.

The Museum’s collection of over 3,000 works comprises 1,149 O’Keeffe paintings, drawings, and sculptures that date from 1901 to 1984, the year failing eyesight forced O’Keeffe into retirement. The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum is the largest single repository of O’Keeffe’s work in the world. Throughout the year, visitors can see a changing selection of these works. In addition, the Museum presents special exhibitions that are either devoted entirely to O’Keeffe’s work or combine examples of her art with works by her American modernist contemporaries. The Museum also organizes exhibitions of works by her contemporaries, as well as by living artists of distinction. Over 140 artists other than O’Keeffe have been exhibited at the Museum, such as Arthur Dove, Sherrie Levine, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol.

Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.

- Edouard Manet

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The thicker you paint, the more it flows.

-John Singer Sargent