[rikvanmechelen]

Hi anotheryou, For full disclosure, I'm one of the Devs that worked on this project though these opinions are completely my own. We agree that the ugly red X is ugly, it's just part of an old design, that will still be around for a bit, but not too long. We actually used to have a zoom, the problem is that unlike Artsy, we do not have the full rights for these images, even though MoMA might own the artwork. Image rights for modern art are complex, and we removed it not to long ago. We legally can't put out images larger than 2000x2000, so we decided to use tiling to get around that. That was until people started to paste them back together and got a very high res image, so we took it down (for now). In the end, this was an archives project, which means dealing with a lot of old material. We are the first (or at least one of) that opens up our archives in such a way. And as it should be with big IT projects, this was an MVP of course. I really wish I could have been there to take a picture with Audrey Hepburn and a banana for scale :D

[anotheryou]

Thanks for the personal reply. Of course I'm glad you made the effort and it's amazing so much has made it online after all. I suspected rights where an issue and part of my critic was based on the anger about the protective art world in general (I really love the open internet and the art world makes it very hard to share and debate it online).