GoeGuessr for Art
Geo Artwork is a fun game in which you have to guess where individual works of art were created. The game is very similar to the popular Geo...
A Still Life Map of the World
Jason Farago of the New York Times has published another close reading of a Dutch masterpiece. Over the last few years Farago has released a...
AI Generated Maps
Latent Diffusion is a very clever AI powered tool which can create images from a text prompt. Tell Latent Diffusion what you want a picture ...
The 2022 r/place Atlas
Josh Wardle, the inventor of Wordle), had his first viral hit back in 2017 with the subReddit r/place. On April 1st 2017 Reddit uploaded a ...
The Danish Map of Art
The National Gallery of Denmark (SMK) has released an interactive map which geolocates over 4,000 artworks. The Kunstens Danmarkskort allows...
Mapping the Louvre
The Louvre has digitized over 480,000 works of art, including the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo. It has also created an interactive map of...
Conjoined Twin Towns
Sãotá is a really interesting experiment which merges the map data of two very different cities to create a map of an imagined conjoined cit...
Raphael's Cartoons
One of the many wonders of London's fantastic free museums is the Raphael Court in the Victoria and Albert Museum. This large gallery ho...
No Fly Free Zones
In response to the more virulent variants of Covid-19 which are now emerging lots of nations around the world appear to be updating their li...
Mapping Cubism
I am a huge fan of Jason Farago's art criticism for the New York Times. His close readings of famous works of art are illustrated with i...
The Map with a Pearl Earring
Many museums and art galleries around the world now use interactive mapping interfaces to allow visitors to explore individual works of art ...
cARTography
Interactive mapping libraries such as Leaflet.js are a fantastic, but still underused, resource for presenting and exploring works of art on...
Painting the World with Maps
I've been working hard on completing this painting over the last few weeks. I'm actually quite pleased with the result. This mounta...
Hyper Resolution Mapped Paintings
Last week Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum released a hyper-resolution image of Rembrandt's The Night Watch. This hyper-resolution image allo...
Virtual Art Galleries
The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the largest art gallery in the United States. It has over two million works...
Virtual Cultural Tours
Louis XIV's Palace of Versailles has to be one of the most magnificent and opulent buildings in the world. This Google Arts and Culture ...
Interactive Maps of the Floating World
Katsushika Hokusai's 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa' is one of the most iconic pictures of all time. His famous woodblock print i...
The Night Watch of the Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum has a collection of over 1 million paintings and other objects. Unfortunately, like most other major museums aro...
The Sistine Chapel Virtual Tour
Saint Peter’s Square and the Sistine Chapel may now be closed. However the Vatican Museum's website is still open and so is its Sistine ...
Interactive Drawing Maps
Gribrouillon is a new tool for drawing on an interactive map. It is a tool which is designed not for the professional cartographer but for t...