Comments on: ArtShare Revisited

By: Shelley Bernstein

Shelley Bernstein — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:10:21 +0000

Hi Sibell, that option has been changed to “Artists on Facebook” and then you can look up by alpha last name, but you bring up a good point here – that “Art from your Friends” would be another good tab, so you could more easily browse from your contacts that way. Makes sense to provide both. I’ll put this on the list for our next round of changes…may be a while before we get to it tho. :(

By: Sibell

Sibell — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:25:29 +0000

I like the idea that the personal artwork uploads are global, but I am missing the option to see the artworks your friends have uploaded. Is this still available somehow?

By: Amelia Wong

Amelia Wong — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:02:54 +0000

Makes perfect sense; rights and code are barriers to distribution as much as they also allow it. Thank you for this thorough explanation and for following up so quickly! .

Also, I wanted to compliment the BM for opening up the artist upload feature globally. That is a huge improvement–forward-thinking and a real, practical difference in standard art museum practice.

By: Shelley

Shelley — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:22:57 +0000

Thanks for your comment, Amelia – the Rijksmuseum widget was something I didn’t know about – many thanks! The issue with ArtShare is that not all the work is ours to share so we have very limited rights in terms of how we can re-purpose the app. Well, in fact, we can’t repurpose at all since most of the artists who gave permission (in our case at least) only gave it for use within ArtShare on Facebook. That might have been a bit shortsighted on our part, but we wanted to be as clear as possible about how images would be used, at what size and where. This means the app has to stay on Facebook unless we go back and re-ask for broader permissions and this is made more complicated by the fact that many museum’s who are using ArtShare would have to do the same thing. Grrr. It’s an interesting case study in the complications of sharing the app in this way.

I miss the larger shuffling too – I wish Facebook was a little less restrictive in the window size on the darn wall. If we find a lot of people are asking for this, we might just sacrifice the placement on the wall page and limit it to the boxes page where we are allowed to have a larger window size. I wish we could offer a choice – “display on your wall in this format or display on your boxes tab in this format” but when we tried it seemed like FB used the same code for both pages, so it was one design that had to work for both (if we wanted to be on the wall in the first place). This may change over time…or we might have gotten that incorrect, but we are pretty sure these are the limitations we are dealing with. At this point we are kind of waiting to see what the feedback is on this change before we adjust it.

By: Amelia

Amelia — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:09:43 +0000

Thank you for this explanation.

Do you have plans to turn ArtShare into a widget like the Rijksmuseum’s? I liked the randomness of the works shuffling on my page and I’d sort of like to have that back, but in a larger size than the thumbnails.