Google Art Project (update)

Back in September I mentioned Google Art Project…

I don’t know about you, but I often fantasize about winning a hefty lottery and spending the rest of my life travelling the world, visiting art museums. Google has come up with something kind of like that for those of us that haven’t won the lottery yet.  With Google Art Project, you can search by artist name (in order of first name, oddly), artwork title, or museum collection. You can even sign up (for free) or sign in with your existing google account information, and create your own collections. Once you find a piece you want to look at, you can zoom in so close you can check the thread count on the canvas. It’s amazing.

Well, the team at Google has gone and improved it!

Here’s an update from +Google Art Project. Today we have 29 new art organizations from 14 countries bringing their collections online, and we’ve also introduced new tools—like a comparison feature and Hangouts within Art Project—to help you explore these great works even further. Read more on the post below, and of course, check it out yourself directly…

There is a ton of fantastic new content up, like work from the Princeton University Art Museum – here is an example of the level of detail you can get looking at, say, the Jockey by Toulouse-Lautrec.