How do we love Flickr? Let me count the ways

L. Corwin Christie put up a post last week on her Technology in the Arts blog with an excellent list of museums who are using Flickr well.

I'd like to add one to that list. The Nasher Museum of Art has always done a nice job with keeping content current on Flickr.

But a few months back Wendy Livingston and the gang decided to uniquely integrate Flickr with with the opening of their exhibition Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids. The exhibition features images that Warhol used as studies for later portraits. The Nasher has assembled over 300 images for Big Shots.

To tie in with the exhibition opening, guests at the event were photographed in Polaroid style and were then directed to find their mugs on the Warhol exhibition Flickr page.

To see Warhol's original works check out the exhibition here. (I'd share all the images on this blog but I prefer to steer clear of copyright lawyers whenever possible.)

It was a fun idea and a great example of marrying medium and message.

Technology in the Arts

This evening I had the opportunity to go to dinner with some very interesting and passionate arts marketers from across the country.

One member of the group was Corwin  Christie, the primary author of a blog you should read if you haven't run across it before.  Technology in the Arts consistently has good, new information on the use of technology, from mobile to the web, in the marketing of arts organizations.

Check out Corwin's thoughts at technologyinthearts.org