“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
“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 Abramović Trying to Create a Performance Art Utopia?” about her new museum plans on Hyperalleric
(Granet, circa 1820)
“Why does the future look so much like the past?” — #aam2012 dude from LA
At home with Kiki Smith #walkerartcenter
“Frames are somewhere between furniture and memorials”
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“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]
Reading “On Display” by Margaret Hall: museum exhibition development encyclopaedia circa 1987.
A review and recommendation of the HAMMER REPORT out of Machine Project on make it BETTER blog.
ART = MATH TO THRIVE BY > this says it better
from the New York Times: “Both the president and the chairman of the endowment, Rocco Landesman, emphasized the economic benefits of spending money on the arts. ‘A dollar invested directly through the NEA is matched by $8 of additional investment and generates $26 of economic activity in the community,’ Mr. Landesman said in a statement. ‘In short, art works.’” - via Art Practical
“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.”
Always a great technique: video, scale, imagery in unexpected places. Philly 2008.
Iteration is the sincerest form of flattery.
(photo by Kevin Twomey)
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, and curatorial on the other, as if we couldn’t possibly have both.” — Museum Ed Blog