Some of the connections are obvious – a Jim Dine image of a heart ( Blue Clamp) sent in response to the heart emoji. The project quickly went viral: in one week more than two million text messages of art were delivered as people requested images relating to everything from robots to love, cats to rainbows, family to horses, sadness to that emoji of a pile of poo. All you have to do (though unfortunately you have to be in the US) is text 57251 with the words "send me", plus a word or an emoji, and the museum will text back with an image from its collection. Send Me SFMOMA uses text messaging to open up the museum's collection of around 34,000 works of art. The most genius idea of all came from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) last month. Perhaps this is a project for Creative Ireland to pick up.Īll you have to do is text 'send me', plus a word or an emoji, and the museum will text back with an image from its collection It’s a gorgeous idea, and one which featured in the Three Sisters’ (Kilkenny, Waterford and Wexford) bid for Ireland’s 2020 Capital of Culture designation (which was eventually awarded to Galway). A visit to your GP could result in the prescription of tickets to cultural events. Imagine doing something similar with the Crawford’s lovely Laverys.Īs European Capital of Culture in 2011, the programmers at the Finnish city of Turku came up with cultural prescriptions. With separate events for adults and children, you can curl up in your sleeping bag and let the presence of the collection seep into your dreams. Imagine waking up with dinosaurs? New York’s Natural History Museum hosts sleepovers. It’s about paying more than lip service to the idea of the value and importance of creativity in everything we do, and there are some brilliant ideas out there to get our own institutions going.
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