Talking Point: “This is not an Artwork”
Check out this article by Slate on art that has been “written off,” “devoid of value,” “destroyed,” yet still here and now, on exhibit again. Read the full article.
Tag: food for thought
Guest blog: The Role of Arts Organizations in Civil Society
This weekend, the Tufts Museum Studies blog will be joining the Salzburg Global Forum for Young Cultural Leaders in a global discussion. This 5-day conference brings together 50 young leaders from across the arts (dance, theater, and museum) to meet with experts. Three of the questions on …
Food for Thought: Should Museums Accession lolcats?
Go and read Suse Cairns‘s fascinating exploration of native digital objects and art, and how museums can think about them and deal with them. Bonus interview with Tom Woolley, New Media Curator at the UK National Media Museum. (He’s responsible for a Life Online gallery …
Google World Wonders Project
Initial reaction: OMG COOOOOOOL. More measured response from Max Van Balgooy of Engaging Places: Google Launches World Wonders Project.
Food for Thought: Making a Museum from Scratch
In case you haven’t seen this, Ed Rodley at Thinking about Museums has had a really, really fascinating, thoughtful, and thought-provoking series of discussions lately.
He’s playing out a thought experiment that starts with a basic premise: how would you create a museum from scratch? That is, how would you incorporate all of our current thinking about community, digital access, transparency, radical trust, etc., into a brand new institution? Is it possible to do things right from the start, or will we fall into the same traps?
Here are his posts so far:
Making a museum from scratch: Part One
Making a museum from scratch: Part One – inspirational readings
Making a museum from scratch: Part Two
Making a museum from scratch: Part Two – inspirational readings