Free Audio Tours!
A really good idea is to use the audio tours to help focus your thoughts of what each museum considers its most important works. At the Yale Art Gallery, they offer free audio tour headsets upstairs in the American Wing. By all means, take advantage of that. Something new has come on the scene. Slate magazine offers free downloadable audio tours for you to play on your mp3 player or iPod of selections from the Modern collection at the Metropolitan Museum. (The Met has it's own Audio Tours for $6 and probably well woth it for you) Check out free audio downloads from The Museum of Modern Art, and more.... follow the links....
From the Slate site:
"Download Slate's unauthorized tours and take them with you. If you happen to be in New York (or plan to be soon), you can start right now with Slate art critic Lee Siegel's tour of what he considers the most overrated and underrated paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Modern Art Gallery.
Here's how it works: The tour consists of 11 MP3 files, each corresponding to a different painting, and a map of the gallery (PDF format) to help you locate the paintings. We've gathered all the files together in a zipped folder, which you can download here. Or, if you'd like to watch some short excerpts from the tour online, click here for a streaming video "trailer." We chose the Met as our first subject not because there's anything wrong with it or its own $6 audio tour (which is actually somewhat better than average). Quite the opposite. We chose the Met because its collection is so rich there's room for a hundred audio tours—the Met's, ours, and yours too, if you feel like making one. In fact, as we've been developing our audio tours over the last few months we've noticed a few museums and some of their patrons playing around with MP3 tours. The Museum of Modern Art in New York was the subject of a recent class project by students at Marymount Manhattan College, who recorded their own impressionistic and often ribald thoughts about several of the museum's most famous paintings. In an apparent reaction to the students (whose downloadable tour was the subject of a front page New York Times story), MoMA itself now offers portions of its official tour for free download."
A really good idea is to use the audio tours to help focus your thoughts of what each museum considers its most important works. At the Yale Art Gallery, they offer free audio tour headsets upstairs in the American Wing. By all means, take advantage of that. Something new has come on the scene. Slate magazine offers free downloadable audio tours for you to play on your mp3 player or iPod of selections from the Modern collection at the Metropolitan Museum. (The Met has it's own Audio Tours for $6 and probably well woth it for you) Check out free audio downloads from The Museum of Modern Art, and more.... follow the links....
From the Slate site:
"Download Slate's unauthorized tours and take them with you. If you happen to be in New York (or plan to be soon), you can start right now with Slate art critic Lee Siegel's tour of what he considers the most overrated and underrated paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Modern Art Gallery.
Here's how it works: The tour consists of 11 MP3 files, each corresponding to a different painting, and a map of the gallery (PDF format) to help you locate the paintings. We've gathered all the files together in a zipped folder, which you can download here. Or, if you'd like to watch some short excerpts from the tour online, click here for a streaming video "trailer." We chose the Met as our first subject not because there's anything wrong with it or its own $6 audio tour (which is actually somewhat better than average). Quite the opposite. We chose the Met because its collection is so rich there's room for a hundred audio tours—the Met's, ours, and yours too, if you feel like making one. In fact, as we've been developing our audio tours over the last few months we've noticed a few museums and some of their patrons playing around with MP3 tours. The Museum of Modern Art in New York was the subject of a recent class project by students at Marymount Manhattan College, who recorded their own impressionistic and often ribald thoughts about several of the museum's most famous paintings. In an apparent reaction to the students (whose downloadable tour was the subject of a front page New York Times story), MoMA itself now offers portions of its official tour for free download."
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