YouTube and Guggenheim partner for cultural populism

YouTube and the Guggenheim Museum have partnered in a project to pick 20 YouTube videos that will be included in a museum show, according to The Washington Post.

Nancy Spector, chief curator of the Guggenheim Foundation, calls the collaboration an opportunity to see how new technology platforms might change the video art form. "We are, in a sense, inviting people to raise the standards" of YouTube, she says. "This is aspirational for people who are interested in seeing their work be taken artistically."

YouTube brought musicians together from around the world last year in the first collaborative orchestra and the arts project runs along the same mission: Discover talent where you normally would not find it and make art where you normally would not. This project signals a positive trend in building relationships on the Web and pushing the boundaries of artistic inclusion.