May 2012
5 posts
Great image to captures a gotta-do for museum...
“Chief of Technology, Shelley Bernstein, greets a visitor at the staff desk in Connecting Cultures. Each staff member at the Museum will attend the desk for two hour shifts once every two months. When you come visit us, you’ll meet a different person each time and be able to give us your feedback about the installation and your visit with us.”
- #brooklynmuseum
Abramović's Museum: upon arriving, visitors will...
“To me, when you die, you can’t leave anything physical — it doesn’t make any sense; but an idea can last for a long time,” she said. The embodiment of the idea, she explained, is the Marina Abramović Institute for the Preservation of Performance Art, which will function as a museum, archive, school and theater, and also as her legacy — all of which sound quite physical.
From “Is Marina...
“Why does the future look so much like the past?”
– #aam2012 dude from LA
March 2012
2 posts
3 tags
aphorisms for picture frame shopping
“Frames are somewhere between furniture and memorials”
&
“No one wants a beloved family member to be entombed in a block of Lucite,” he elaborated.
- Jake Barton, visitor to a MOMA gift shop [NYT]
February 2012
2 posts
January 2012
1 post
Want to learn to survey old school?
“Initial Points: Anchors of America’s Grid looks at the historic surveying infrastructure of the USA, and how literal monuments of place have evolved into expressive cornerstones of space.”
@The Center for Land Use Management
December 2011
1 post
I don't knit, but still LOVE this knitting blog
“So, no surprise, but look who’s hugely behind (and who has a huge behind, nyuk nyuk nyuk, I’ll be here all week) on the holiday knitting.”
November 2011
7 posts
Ye Hallowed 3rd Place
Listening to the radio today about how movie theaters on Market Street in SF played shows, news, etc. before the movie (prior to BART). Sounds like a great 3rd place model.
My beloved museums have a way to go but I think there are approaches out there that could get us there… worth trying (and fun) anyway.
“I love it when people imply that education is on one side of the museum arena,...”
– Museum Ed Blog
“The art market flourished, but it also created a lopsided demand for painting...”
– Sound familiar? The NYT talks about an exhibit in NY that looks back on this time in “Circa 1986”.
WatchYes, it’s museum related. A cheer for the field.
October 2011
10 posts
Photoshop ≠ feasible
September 2011
13 posts
A hopeful article on art (by a local!)
Local arts writer Glen Helfand for Huffington post:
“Whether or not this will result in something successful as art as we’ve come to know it, their positions gave me some hope that the next generation of artists are less rooted in hermetic zones and are moving out into a new season of conscientiousness as they offer us visions that will get us thinking in new, more productive...
Do Weddings Drive Design?
Sure, someone has pondered this in a more thorough way, but looking at the cast I had to ask:
“TILT is a new contemporary wedding fair catering to the creative, alternative-thinking”
"5¢ for teens, students and those with string. 10¢...
Artist Fred Sandback’s work takes over MCA Denver: beyond yarnbombing
RFP: Innovation Lab for Museums
Trying to innovate? Apply, museums, apply!
“The Innovation Lab for Museums is designed to help museums incubate and test innovative strategies to address major challenges in all areas of their operations. The Lab is a collaboration between EmcArts and the American Association of Museums’ Center for the Future of Museums, with the generous support of MetLife Foundation.”
"It's Not Just a Museum, It's a Think Tank" -...
“These initiatives differ from conventional exhibitions in their focus on transforming the audience experience—from the relatively passive act of looking to the more active ones of speaking up and pitching in. “The outcome of what we’re doing depends on people who live in these cities…”
If repeat posting, mea culpa, but worth it.
"It all started with a DNA test."
Quote from a review of re-Fable, an exhibition by April Banks and Amanda Williams.
Being born Italian American, I know exactly where I’m from. In fact, the houses my grandparents were born in still stand, and relatives live nearby. There are a variety of myths, sure, from my lineage, but their trajectory is clear. In this exhibition, artists Banks and Williams, didn’t know their...
August 2011
6 posts
“The word “project” thus actually originally meant “something...”
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project
Park Life & Jeff Koons, again
Gotta love ‘em.
[image source]
The Best of: from Art Practical
AP’s team gives us their votes for the past year in the Bay Area:
http://www.artpractical.com/current/best_of_year_two/
Urban wayfinding, craft style:
“I continue on with my yarnbombing of The Oakland Library System. It’s an interesting way to grasp an entire city-there are 20 libraries through out the entire map , lots of places I don’t go in my small loops of travel . “
- Streetcolor
"A Pop-Up Guggenheim as Urban Laboratory" (NYT)
A museum after my own thesis:
…it is part think tank, part open-air forum, part community center, all nestled on a vacant sliver of land between two tenements. Its goal is to engage New Yorkers in discussions about urban living.
July 2011
4 posts
Giant Hand Seeks Loving Home
at a place where folks need to know where to go:
http://bit.ly/gianthand
Contact me!
MIT article on kids + learning
“Don’t show, don’t tell?
Cognitive scientists find that when teaching young children, there is a trade-off between direct instruction and independent exploration.”