INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART LAUNCHES VIDEO WEBSITE

The Indianapolis Museum of Art has launched ArtBabble.org, a website that offers art-related videos from sources including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the PBS series Art:21, reports Kate Taylor in the New York Times. The museum invited a handful of institutions, including the New York Public Library, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, to take part. In the long run, it hopes to add more institutions, so that ArtBabble becomes “the destination for art content online,” according to Daniel Incandela, director of new media at the Indianapolis museum. The hosting fees and other expenses of ArtBabble are being covered by the museum, with the help of a fifty-thousand-dollar grant from the Ball Brothers Foundation. (ArtBabble is free to users.) If the site becomes popular, the museum will look for corporate sponsorship, the museum’s director, Maxwell Anderson, said.