Signed «Curtis LA ©» in black ink in the image l.r., copyright credit in the negative l.l. Toned double
border gelatin silver print, image size 5 1/2 x 7 5/8 in.
Within a week of MoMA's reinstall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art unveiled «Open Access»: a shift toward becoming an ostensible museum without
borders, wherein the digitized catalogue of all public domain artworks from its collection, totaling more than 375,000 images — from Japanese woodblock
prints, to studies by American modernist painter Arthur Dove, to Eugène Atget's
gelatin silver prints of a Haussmann - izing Paris — are now accessible and downloadable to anyone with an Internet connection, anywhere, at any time.