But meanwhile, here's some exciting news from the world of art (which is connected with music on so many levels). The San José Museum of Art greeted the new year by launching an online database of its permanent collection.
The museum has more than 2,500 works in its collection, only a small fraction of which are on view in the galleries at any given time. The online database makes the collection available to the public with images of more than 2,000 works of art. Funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, this is the result of two years of cataloging, photographing, and digitizing objects as well as converting the images and accompanying information into the new database. Visitors may browse the collection by artist, medium, or genre, or find specific works using keywords.
Similar online databases exist from the San Jose museum's more affluent brethren, such as the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and others.