The name of a recent­ly launched dig­i­tal archive per­forms a rare inver­sion, label­ing as last a cre­ation marked not by final­i­ty but extrem­i­ty. Billed as “the largest search engine for muse­um art,” The Last Muse­um cur­rent­ly index­es around five mil­lion art­works, both those in the pub­lic domain and those cov­ered by fair use. “Vis­i­tors can search by themes, moods, col­ors, sub­jects, or descrip­tive phras­es with­out know­ing an artwork’s title or artist. The for­mer includes every­thing from French, Roman, and Japan­ese (with a strong selec­tion of wood­block prints), to Cham­pa, Tajik, and Basque. But if things go accord­ing to plan, none of their hold­ings will escape The Last Muse­um’s ever-widen­ing dig­i­tal net.