February 2012
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"Public Property" at the Walters Art Museum →
thedcrepresentative:
This summer, the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, MD, is asking the public to curate an exhibition of a title and theme to be determined by the public. This is the epitome promoting the production of culture through the public sphere.
Despite the contemporary museum theory of maximized accessibility through public engagement and minimized elitism in art historical...
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“Artists in Residence
One of the strong points of the Arsenal restauration...”
– My Editor’s note to the latest issue of The Museum Studies Weekly, just released today… (via museumstudies)
Some Real Updates:
I’ve finally made a Linked In account… I was invited some time ago, but the invitation got buried under my emails and I forgot until it was brought up in conversation. I’m going to start updating this account - transferring was extremely busy for me, and I wanted to get settled into my state school before I tried to focus on this as well.
Now that I’m into my second...
Every Museum in Madrid
In case you’re interested, I’d like to submit my blog for the Musuem Lovers category: http://everymuseummadrid.blogspot.com/
Cool, I can add you! Is there any new additions I should add to the list?
Anonymous asked: Missy, You might want to let people know that because of the Centennial many of Arizona's museums are free to the public this Saturday. I know of at least 6 in Tucson. Including the Art Museum and the Children's Museum. Also they are opening a Purse Museum here. A few of the historical sites are free as well and of course the Gem and Mineral show is here through the weekend. -Mama
January 2012
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Met Museum spotlights American Indian art →
alesiakaye:
An exhibit of American Indian art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art throws the connection between art and collector into unusually sharp relief.
The show features key pieces from The Coe Collection of American Indian Art, the life’s work of a Ralph T. Coe, a collector and museum director who played a central role in reviving interest in American Indian art.
“The exhibit honors...
Anonymous asked: Hi! I'm Zainab..a final year student doing Architecture/ Interior design doing my thesis on a Sports museum. I'd love to gain any information you'd have on the MCC Museum in Lord's cricket ground or any other better examples. And also details about exhibits, display used in sports museums, and various technical data pertaining to the subject.
buriedunderbooks asked: Hey! I love your blog. I'm trying to pick a good grad school. I saw your list of schools and their programs. Do you happen to know what the rankings are? Also, I read somewhere that if you wanted to be a curator, for example, you should get a masters in something like museum studies but a second masters as well in some kind of history. Then you have to go for a PhD. What do you think?...
December 2011
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Museum-y Christmas Gift Guide: Part 1
jennifuchs:
13 December 2011
Only just over a week to go until Christmas. Have you done all your Christmas shopping yet? If you are still short of a few presents, why not check out some of these museum-y gift suggestions (all suggestions run top left to right, top to bottom):
For Museum Lovers
The most obvious gift for museum lovers is a museum membership. You’ll be making someone happy AND...
November 2011
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Overzealous cleaner ruins £690,000 artwork that... →
laserenissima:
She scoured off a layer of paint in a sculpture by late German artist Martin Kippenberger on loan to a museum in Dortmund
kelisel asked: Hey! I really enjoy your blog it's very informative. I was wondering if you could give me an idea of the biggest issue that museum people are discussing today. I know accessibility and censorship are major issues, but do you know of any others.
Musuems, Oil, and Propaganda
realcleverscience:
Incredible and chilling quote from the book “A Companion to Museum Studies” (pgs 502-503):
A case in point, as stunning to me as it seems typical: “Petroleum Planet,” the display about petroleum at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. The exhibit serves as a thinly veiled celebration of the black gold and and of its centrality to the modern world… Nowhere in the...
October 2011
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Royal Society Opens Online Archive; Puts 60,000... →
Maggie Koerth-Baker writes:
60,000 peer-reviewed papers, including the first peer-reviewed scientific research journal in the world, are now available free online. The Royal Society has opened its historical archives to the public. Among the cool stuff you’ll find here: Issac Newton’s first published research paper and Ben Franklin’s write-up aboutthat famous kite experiment. Good luck getting...
“We have all this pent-up knowledge in museums, all this pent-up expertise, and...”
– Dr. Jane McGonigal, Gaming the Future of Museums, Center for the Future of Museums, 2008. (via hstryqt)
thelastgreatpoolparty asked: The program is really small, about 50 students. There are three professors, though one is about to take a sabbatical so there'll be a few lecturers soon. There are a lot of folks in the program with art history backgrounds, but the professors are mostly anthropology/education based, so it's better for those areas. It's really hands on and requires a couple internships, the classes...
Museo for your list
Tyler Green’s Tumblr is 3rd of May and is a daily artwork that relates to news/events of the day. Tyler is a nationally followed modern art critic and journalist, blogging at MAN (Modern Art Notes.)
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hstryqt asked: My friend's experience with GW is that they're extremely old school, but the connection to the Smithsonian is hard to beat. You won't make waves there though. I really enjoy IUPUI in Indianapolis - it's a great city with fantastic museums, largest Children's Museum in the world and the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and Conner Prairie History Park, among many others. IUPUI is...
shuraiya asked: The museum studies graduate program through the Anthropology department is pretty great (IMO) at Chico State, if you or other budding museologists are interested in relocating to California! :)
pigeonsandpomegranates asked: I'm an undergrad (a junior) in Museum Studies too - I contracted my major. I'm looking at U of Washington and George Washington for grad school (MS in Museology, etc) Are there any programs you're really looking into? Thanks!
texmarie asked: Hi! I'm in the process of applying to graduate school for the fall, and I wanted to thank you for your list of programs! It is the most comprehensive I've been able to find, and it greatly widened my pool of possibilities. At the risk of asking something that's been asked a hundred times before, which university do you attend, how did you find the admissions process, and are there...
Libyan Capital Museum Reopens →
archaeology:
Archaeologists with Tripoli’s Assaraya Al Hamra museum say they are now finally able to show off the country’s treasures. Despite the unrest that has swept cities across the north African country, museum workers say they managed to save hundreds of artifacts, which include statues and coins that date back to Roman times, from looters.
Follow the link for a video on the...
Watchjoshrobinsonblog:
This video from the Tate is a must-see for art and museum enthusiasts.
Produced for the museum’s new exhibit Gerhard Richter: Panorama, the 22-minute piece embodies many of art’s contradictions. It is elusive and direct, remote and intimate, challenging and accessible, universal and personal.
Perhaps most importantly, it constructs a portrait of Richter that shrinks this...
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Watchrealcleverscience:
For my introduction to museology (museum studies) class I’m part of a team that’s investigating a controversy over censorship by the Smithsonian, a few months back, when they pulled part of an exhibition which seems to generally be about LGBT issues (the exhibition is called “Hide/seek”), though the part that was pulled was from an experimental movie which features 11 seconds...
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rococodreams asked: Hi there! I had a question for you/your followers. I'm doing a group project on the Enola Gay Controversy. I am trying to find people who work in museums who have used this controversy as a reference in their museums, who have had controversies in their museums, or have had censorship issues in their exhibitions. - I would be *so* grateful if you shared this! My email is 18thcenturyhistory @...
“When looking for a job, make sure that the institutions you are looking at have...”
– My Marketing Professor (via museumuse)
“What many folks don’t realize is that an archive now means much more than that,...”
– Day of Digital Archives 2011 – GHL Blog Today is the Day of Digital Archives (via archivalia)
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“[The majority of arts funding supports large organizations with budgets greater...”
– Troubling findings in the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy’s new report, “Fusing Arts, Culture and Social Change: High Impact Strategies for Philanthropy”, which was released Monday. (via iteeth)
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Kelsey Rose.: Ten-Minute Art School Course:... →
beyondneptune:
Ten-Minute Art School Course
Becoming Modern
by Dr. Parme Giuntini
People use the term “modern” in a variety of ways, often very loosely, with a lot of implied associations of new, contemporary, up-to-date, and technological. We know the difference between a…
Anonymous asked: 1. The Dallas Contemporary has a Tumblr (dallascontemporary), but it hasn't been updated in a year and half. 2. Go to the latimes Tumblr and scroll down to the September 29 entry. Sad news about Forbidden City (specifically, the Palace Museum) in Beijing.
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Connections at the Met →
museumsandstuff:
museumuse: “Really interesting site, profiling curators from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.”
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Wolff Olins and Asian Art Museum Unveil New Brand... →
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“Institutions need to envision themselves as part of a larger collaborative and...”
– Fiona Cameron & Helena Robinson, Digital Knowledgescapes: Cultural, Theoretical, Practical, and Usage Issues Facing Museum Collection Databases in a Digital Epoch, (2007). (via hstryqt)
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did...”
– Steve Jobs (via kingcreative)
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“In developing experiences, museums have an advantage over their competitors,...”
– An Agenda for Museums in the Twenty-First Century - Harold Skramstad (via songkite)
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