Here's a great idea in a story from the New York Times. Could be a fun Project 2! --DB
With Irreverence and an iPod, Recreating the Museum Tour
May 28, 2005
With Irreverence and an iPod, Recreating the Museum Tour
By RANDY KENNEDY
If you soak up the Jackson Pollocks at the Museum of Modern Art while listening to the museum's official rented $5 audio guide, you will hear informative but slightly dry quotations from the artist and commentary from a renowned curator. ("The grand scale and apparently reckless approach seem wholly American.")
But the other day, a college student, Malena Negrao, stood in front of Pollock's "Echo Number 25," and her audio guide featured something a little more lively. "Now, let's talk about this painting sexually," a man's deep voice said. "What do you see in this painting?"
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