February 2011
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It is mid-December and I am in the same room with Tullos, looking at the cause of all the fuss. It is a painting of three women sitting in a meadow and, to an untrained eye, it looks genuine. Then he turns off the lights and shines a “black light” on it—an ultraviolet lamp used to analyse paintings. Under the black light, parts of the painting glow white and there are bright marks.
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hubrisisterminal asked: I'm not one of those people who follows someone simply because they reblogged or followed you first, however your blog is incredible :)
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Alain de Botton: Why are museums so uninspiring? →
Museums are notoriously bad at telling us why art matters. They vociferously insist on art’s significance and rally governments, donors and visitors accordingly. But they subsequently retreat into a curious, institutional silence about what this importance might actually be based on.
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The challenge is to rewrite the agendas for our museums so that art can begin to serve the needs of...
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“In other words: we can’t exploit this legitimate source of revenue, because then...”
– Donn Zaretsky on arguments against deaccessioning.
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“My heart is broken and my blood is boiling.”
– Zahi Hawass (On 29 January, a small band of looters entered Cairo’s Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, slicing the heads from two mummies, smashing display cases, and damaging other artifacts.)
January 2011
10 posts
When deaccessioning is a positive thing →
museummuse:
“Deaccessioning is part of regular practice in collecting institutions. Our responsibility is to steward and shape a living collection. Both accessions and deaccessions are governed by an institution’s mission and collecting policy—does the artifact fit our mission? Is it in scope, something we are committed to collecting and telling the story of? Is it in bad condition, a...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Gallery: Free online... →
museumstudies:
museumsandstuff:
I am lucky to be a student and have access to JSTOR and other online journal facilities. But those things are expensive for people who are working for institutions that don’t pay for access or people who are simply interested or trying to break into the sector.
And so I…
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“Education and learning have been prioritised in museums, but there is no single...”
– Changing views of learning. From Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformation, Duke University Press, 2006. (via jenlindblad)