InWhitney DigitalbyColin Brooks·Feb 20Dumping complex infrastructure for scripts and a(nother) new online collectionI feel doomed (complimentary) to write these posts every few years about rebuilding an online collection. Maybe that’s because they’re…A response icon1A response icon1
InWhitney DigitalbyColin Brooks·Aug 5, 2025I made an API and now it gets 200k+ requests a monthHaving an API always made sense for the museum. An API provides structured, always up to date, machine-readable access to our public data…
InWhitney DigitalbyColin Brooks·Jan 14, 2025App stores and museumsA couple months ago I had the pleasure or burden of releasing either the first apps ever, or the first apps in the last decade for the…
InWhitney DigitalbyColin Brooks·Jan 3, 2024Keyword tagging artworks with GPT4 and Google VisionI have no data to back this up (a great way to start a blog about data), but I think when people visit a museum’s online collection there…
InWhitney DigitalbyColin Brooks·Dec 29, 2022Rebuilding digital signage at the WhitneyIt’s webpages. The museum’s new digital signage system is webpages.A response icon1A response icon1
InWhitney DigitalbyColin Brooks·May 11, 2021Stepping into open access at the WhitneyIt’s here. It’s finally here. The Whitney Museum of American Art’s first completely public open access datasets.A response icon1A response icon1
InWhitney DigitalbyColin Brooks·Aug 13, 2020Sunrise/Sunset and letting artists take over the museumRecently we published a new Sunrise/Sunset on whitney.org by American Artist, called Looted. The artist and project has been written about…
InWhitney DigitalbyColin Brooks·Mar 23, 2020Relaunching the Whitney’s Online Collection…again*Author’s note: I’ve been sitting on a half-finished draft of this for too long, and while I know this is a bit of an odd time to share, I…
InWhitney DigitalbyColin Brooks·Jun 7, 2019QR Codes: Alive and Well in the Museum?I can’t tell if you QR codes are dead, undead, or if they never died in the first place, but I can tell you we’ve been trialing them at…A response icon4A response icon4
InWhitney DigitalbyColin Brooks·Feb 24, 2019Relaunching Softly: the Whitney’s Online CollectionThe Whitney’s collection defines and drives much of our mission and our work. It is a unique resource, offering a lens into the historical…A response icon1A response icon1
