Month: March 2012

Sotheby’s Institute of Art 2012 Summer Study Courses

Sotheby’s Institute of Art 2012 Summer Study Courses

From the source: 2012 Summer Study Courses Starting in June & July in New York Open for Enrollment www.sothebysinstitute.com/eflux-nysummer Summer Study in New York includes 4-week, 2-week and 1-week courses in June and July that allow students to develop professional expertise, critical thinking skills, and 

Art Museum Educator Seminar

Art Museum Educator Seminar

Direct from the source: August 5 -10 seminar with Rika Burnham in Chicago This one-week summer seminar is designed for art museum educators who have a special interest in gallery teaching.  TIME is hosted by the School of the Art Institute in cooperation with the 

Museums in the News

Museums in the News

Welcome to our weekly roundup of news articles about museums.

 

Smithsonian scores with ‘Art of Video Games’ exhibit

Museum confirms that a still life is by Van Gogh

Colossal Juno lowered by crane through museum roof

Group calls for protection for UAE museum workers

Book Review: Making It In The Art World, by Brainard Cary

Book Review: Making It In The Art World, by Brainard Cary

We’re going to have occasional guest reviews of museum-related books going forward. This is our first, by Tufts student Molly Braswell. If you’d like to review a museum book, please comment on any post or email the editor. If you’d like to review books, but 

Learn, Laugh, Love, Part II: A Series of Mini Workshops with Maximum Impact

Learn, Laugh, Love, Part II: A Series of Mini Workshops with Maximum Impact

From NEMA: Learn, Laugh, Love: Part II A Series of Mini-Workshops with Maximum Impact      Learn, Laugh, Love brings together individuals from various professional positions and levels of seniority, both of local and national stature, to encourage those who are just entering the field, especially 

Museums in the News

Museums in the News

Welcome to our weekly roundup of news articles featuring museums!

The big news to highlight this week is that the New York Times’ annual museum issue is out. Check it out – there’s a lot of interesting things in there, and it will make a good Sunday read for those of you not buried under end-of-semester work.

In other news:

National Libraries and a Museum open up their data using CC0

L.A. museum prepares to display space shuttle Endeavour

Google to Announce Venture With Belgian Museum

Opportunities for new Getty museum leader

THE ROCK: Inland boulder arrives at LA museum

One step closer to a Children’s Museum that will teach and amaze

Why the Museum of the Confederacy Chose Not To Fly the Flag

Liverpool museums could start charging due to funding cuts

When Artists Take On Museums

Foreclosed Homeowners Inspire Architects to Float Housing Ideas

What Makes for Compelling Museum Websites? When to Break the Rules

Booth bobbleheads yanked in Springfield

Montauk Indian Museum Caught In Crossfire

Discovery’s popular ‘MythBusters’ hopes to amuse with first museum exhibit based on the show

Fatal accident at NY Jell-O Museum brings lawsuit

How The Terra Foundation Became A ‘Museum Without Walls’

German court orders rare art posters seized by Nazis to be returned to American man