art
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Background: Every year, tens of millions of coloring books are sold to children and adults alike. The Issue: Filling in a coloring book can be quite a time-consuming process. Even with frantic scribbling and thick markers, it’s a slow process to fully color even a single page in a coloring book (Figure 1). Proposal: Thanks…
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Background: Art museums often display a wide variety of pieces. Some art pieces may be considered to be pretentious or otherwise without merit. Unfortunately, currently there is no way to express that displeasure in an actionable form. Proposal: Art museums should sell two categories of ticket: a regular-priced general admission ticket (Figure 1), and a…
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The issue: It’s difficult to fully appreciate certain types of art from just a photo, especially large pieces or three-dimensional works like statues. For example: Picasso’s Guernica (11 feet high, 25 feet wide) Michelangelo’s David (17 feet tall) The Sistine Chapel ceiling The Cave of Hands Unfortunately, these famous works are spread throughout the world,…
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Background: Art galleries are generally arranged by either genre (for example, “portraits” or “landscapes”) or a period in history (e.g. “Renaissance Italy, 1350–1500”). The issue: This traditional organizational scheme results in dozens of similar works in close proximity, which leads to the following problem: after a person has seen ten masterpiece portraits of Venetian nobles,…
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The issue: The fine arts constantly struggle for funding, perhaps due to their general inability to compete with modern sources of entertainment. Proposal: In art museums, commercial sponsorship could take the form of (non-destructive) modification to the works of art themselves. For example, the Mona Lisa could be holding an iPhone (an idea which has…
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