ArtBabble begins!

This is so what the Web is about - sharing of information, and art-related sources, and spreading it around to as many places as possible.

I learned of ArtBabble because I got a tweet from the Brooklyn Museum on my Twitter account. I read the New York Times article, visited ArtBabble, became a fan on Facebook (which means I can see other people who are interested in the same things I enjoy), joined ArtBabble so I can save the videos I like to my profile there and promote my blog (although ArtBabble is much, much better and will be even more marvellous once it includes material from around the world.)

The embedded video shown below explains what ArtBabble is all about.



Behind the Babble; now with more art is provided under a Creative Commons license. ArtBabble's terms of use are fairly generous as long as there is no copyright infringement.

ArtBabble originates at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. They have a serious web presence, described on their Interact page.

ArtBabble is different from Europeana since it concentrates on art-related video produced in art galleries and other art sites in the United States. Europeana, by the way, is now fully functional although it still has a Beta sticker on its webpages. There, too, you can have a 'My Europeana' section where you can save searches, links to images, and tag images however you want. Europeana provides information about many types of materials and links to the originating source - if the source doesn't provide free or easily viewable material, you're out of luck. It's still pretty great though.