Lately I've been going to Artbabble while I have my breakfast. The site is conceived and produced by the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) and aims to host documentaries, interviews, profile and discussions on art. Some of the videos have been around on the internet for a while (like the ones on Chuck Close and Richard Serra) but the majority of clips have so far had a tight circut. Even though the IMA is the main force behind the site, it also holds videos from LAMCA, MoMA, SFMOMA, The New York Public Library and The Smithsonian American Art Museum.
What is surprising about the site is its wide range of art that it covers, also at a high quality of production. The interface is clean and responsive to interests of the viewers (doesn't always happen); transcripts are available for each video and the side bar picks up on key words mentioned in the main video and shows relevant videos.
What is most interesting to me is realising how the IMA is reassessing the role of the museum. It recently adopted a policy of transparency by revealing its entire database online; showing newly acquired works as well as items which have been deaccessioned, how much they were sold for, when and to whom. Any work which enters the IMA and belonged to its archive at any point, will always remain on the database, accessible to the public making its online sector is ever accumulating and open. This somehow seems quite different to other galleries and museums who work to brand themselves but I can't exactly unpack and pinpoint why I think this.
The above pic is a screen shot taken when I was watching a video on Maya Lin on Above and Below.
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