{"id":134,"date":"2013-04-11T14:32:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T19:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/?p=134"},"modified":"2013-04-30T14:49:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T19:49:28","slug":"museums-coming-soon-to-a-theater-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Museums: Coming soon to a theater near you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/60187443\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Technology is rapidly changing the museum experience. <em>By Experience<\/em>, a company that brought the New York Metropolitan Opera to a wide audience via their live video programs, has now entered the museum for its latest venture. This week, their program, <em>Manet: Portraying Life<\/em>, played on an estimated 1,000 screens in twenty-eight countries. Unlike the live opera broadcasts, the art presentations are really just one-time-only documentaries. <\/p>\n<p>What is gained with this new format? For one, I will not be able to visit the exhibit, stunning in its quality. I can sit in a comfortable chair (with a bag of popcorn) and receive what the project director calls \u201ca super-size VIP virtual tour.&#8221; I&#8217;d learn something, and that&#8217;s good.<\/p>\n<p>What is lost? I am not in control over what I see and how long I look at it. In a real museum, you set your own pace, decide what\u2019s worth twenty seconds or ten minutes. I also lose depth, so the painter&#8217;s brush strokes flatten. <\/p>\n<p>The biggest loss, though, I might call the experience of the holy &#8212; entering into the presence of the real thing. I have gone online and read letters of Thomas Jefferson. But there was an ineffable moment when I was in the Alderman Library at the University of Virginia and held the actual paper in my (gloved!) hands. <\/p>\n<p>Still, these two approaches are not contradictory. The Met says that opera attendance is up because a new audience has been attracted by the theater experience. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology is rapidly changing the museum experience. By Experience, a company that brought the New York Metropolitan Opera to a wide audience via their live video programs, has now entered the museum for its latest venture. This week, their program, Manet: Portraying Life, played on an estimated 1,000 screens in twenty-eight countries. Unlike the live&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/?p=134\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[4,23,22],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-museums","tag-history","tag-museums","tag-pastcasts-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3kcV8-2a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}