Museums Make Some Art Available, Free of Charge

Artinfo’s Tyler Green is in a tizzy. Green,

Every once and a while an art museum (or two or three) does something so jaw-droppingly clever that in hindsight it seems like an obvious thing to do.  So it is with the decision by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum and various entities at Yale University to make high-resolution images of art from their collections available for anyone to use, for any purpose, copyright-free.

Don’t get too excited. Most, if not all of the works, are already in the public domain, and unless I missed it, you’re not going to find any Mike Kelley or Gerhard Richter in there. Here’s a list of what LACMA makes available.