Magnus contends that because the images are created and shared by users, the app is protected by the Digital Millennial Copyright Act. The reproduction of artwork can be a violation of the owner’s copyright. More From the Special Section: Museums, galleries and auction houses are opening their doors wider than ever to new artists, new concepts and new traditions.Ĭopyright law also poses challenges.A Cultural Correction: After removing all references to Columbus from its collections the Denver Art Museum has embraced a new exhibition on Latin American art.And the La Brea Tar Pits & Museum is working to engage visitors about the realities of climate change. New and Old : In California, museums are celebrating and embracing Latino and Chicano art and artists.A Tribute to Black Artists: Four museums across the country are featuring exhibitions this fall that recognize the work of African and African American artists, signaling a change in attitude - and priorities.Bigger and Better : While the Covid-19 pandemic forced museums to close for months, cut staff and reduce expenses, several of them have nevertheless moved forward on ambitious renovations or new buildings.Magnus has built a database of more than 10 million images of art, mostly crowdsourced, and aims to help prospective art buyers navigate the notoriously information-lite arena of galleries and fairs. The art-oriented apps harness image recognition technology, each with a particular twist. There is Shazam for plants or Shazam for clothes and now, Shazam, for art. Shazam’s wild success - it boasts more than a billion downloads and 20 million uses daily, and was purchased by Apple for a reported $400 million last year - has spawned endless imitations. First came Shazam, an app that allows users to record a few seconds of a song and instantly identifies it.
Magnus is part of a wave of smartphone apps trying to catalog the physical world as a way of providing instantaneous information about songs or clothes or plants or paintings. Magnus then slotted this information into a folder marked “My Art” for digital safekeeping - and future looking. In 2010, it had sold for $170,500 at Sotheby’s in New York, the app told me. It was titled “ Model With Empire State Building.” dated 1992, measured 72 inches by 60 inches, and was for sale for $300,000. The painting was by Philip Pearlstein, according to the app, known for reinvigorating the tradition of realist figure painting. I opened a smartphone app called Magnus, snapped a quick picture, and clicked “Use.” Seconds later, I got that addictive, satisfying click.
At the Betty Cuningham gallery on the Lower East Side recently, I noticed an arresting painting: It showed a nude woman curled against a window, asleep, with the old New Yorker Hotel and Empire State Building in view and a fish above her, hanging or floating.
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