When the winter flees from migratory birds by Maf Räderscheidt
A Tree at 4AM by Maja B.
Poetry Pants by Cagney King
Beyond Swimmers by Stella Gassaway
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Feb 27
Art Friday Part 2
Feb 27
Art Friday
I do this every Friday. I call out on twitter to artists of any kind to tell me what they are up to or what have just completed. Every Friday I am blown away.
If you want to take part in Art Friday, email pete(at)newcurator.com.
Trees with Mormon Temple by Jeff Gates. Read Jeff’s blog post about [...]
Feb 26
The Sad State of Museum HR Departments
Amy Fox (of @museumtweets) blogs about an email she received that is endemic of a real problem in museums today. After applying for a job at a local museum and not hearing anything, she decides to follow up with another email. This is what she got in reply.
I have received many applications. Yours was not [...]
Feb 25
ArtBabble
Thanks to Tyler Green for giving me the invite to ArtBabble.org, Indianapolis Museum of Art’s project.
On first impression, it seems like a re-skinned art channel on YouTube or Vimeo. Then you see that all the videos come directly from institutions (at the moment, IMA). In this 2.0 world, its good to see the user relegated to [...]
Feb 25
Sell the Copyright?
The photographer Annie Leibovitz has used the copyright to all her past and future work (amongst other things) as collateral against a rather large loan.
Selling copyright? Theoretically, all of her life’s work will belong to someone else if she doesn’t keep up repayments so it’s not quite the same as selling, but collateral is by [...]
Feb 25
Donn Zaretsky’s new favourite Museum Director
Donn Zaretsky of the Art Law Blog has a quote from Hugh Davies, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (via Tyler Green’s Modern Art Notes):
“We museum directors can huff and puff about how once we bring these artworks into our collections that they no longer have value because they’ve been removed from [...]
Feb 25
Museum Management and Museum Tankism
The New York Times has a brief article about the Metropolitan Museum of Art closing down seven more of its satellite shops. The plan is to concentrate on its online shop and mail-order catalog and to cut back on staff expenses. It seems the Met is using the current financial situation to really get themselves [...]
Feb 24
Starting my own Museum Crusade
Maybe I’ve been reading too much museumssuck.com and William’s ascerbic criticisms of terrible exhibition practices has really got me thinking (and laughing).
Time to start my own crusade and in the highest form of flattery, I’m stealing borrowing his “Desuckification Tips“.
I would like everyone to understand and accept the following rule:
Intentionally hiding information is not a substitute [...]
Feb 24
Guest Post: Richard McCoy
What I’d like to talk about is 5 reasons why Flickr is teh Roxxor for Museums and Art Conservators, plus 1 reason why it sucks.
Teh Roxxor!
1) The kayak restoration project at the New Bedford Whaling Museum.
2) Have you met “hanneorla” and seen all the amazing artwork she looks at on her travels? I’m not only impressed [...]
Feb 24
Bluetooth in Museums
Buzzeum.com posts about the use of Bluetooth in the Palais de Toyko for the exhibition entitled Gakona (post is in French). Video or audio content relating to what you are standing next to in the exhibition is sent to your phone via Bluetooth.
Nice to see Bluecasting being used for something other than bluespam. Although this is another one [...]
Feb 23
Bunch of Tech Links
A small digest of what I’m reading today. All similar as they all involve technology in some way.
Machine-readable Labelling – the way ahead?
Nick Poole at OpenCulture talks about RFID tags and collection management
Historical Gaming
I’ve often said that more people learnt more about WWII from the Medal of Honour games. Seem Microsoft will throw money at [...]
Feb 23
Zoetropes
The Creative Review blog has a post about Sony’s World’s Largest Zoetrope in Italy to show off their Bravia television. Built on a giant spinning ring, the televisions show a single image of Brazilian footballer Kaká that looks like he’s passing the ball to himself when the ring reaches 50kph.
This got me thinking: often museums [...]
Feb 23
Museum-Inspired Music
Let’s ignore the “…and finally” tone of this BBC report about musicians making music inspired by a museum’s collection and focus on what the project is about.
The seven museums of the National Museum Wales invited bands from the local music scene to create a track for as part of the Music 09 programme of events. [...]
Feb 20
Art Friday
Black Storm in the Bedroom by Patricia Freeman-Martin.
NO PHOTOS: 200 HUF in my pocket, 5300 HUF short by Seldon Yuan
Graphite drawing by Victoria Trinder
Coney Island Then and Now: May 2007 and February 2009 by An Xiao
See everything truly amazing (thoughtography) by Nick Fortunato
see everything truly amazing (thoughtphotography) | Chrysler Building by Nick Fortunato
Mirror by Barbara Levine
Feb 19
Slack Space: Empty Shops as Exhibition Space
72,000 retail outlets are predicted to close in the UK during 2009, but there are artists and curators who have taken the initiative of putting up artwork in these otherwise unused commercial properties, know as ”Slack Spaces”. The article mentions a group of artists who were “allowed” to put art into some shops in Margate. One [...]
Feb 19
Museum Diplomacy: Poland and Germany
It seems for every act of international relation that involves museums, be it Neil MacGregor acting as a cultural diplomat in Iran or the Beijing Palace Museum loaning artefacts to Taiwan to thaw out relations a bit (despite Taiwan National Palace Museum not returning the favour yet. Early days), there appears to be an equal [...]
Feb 18
100th Post
100 posts in 49 days. I would like to take a moment for this small landmark achievement for me. Thank to all those who visit and commented and all those who follow me on twitter and retweet my stuff. Big shout out to Julia Kaganskiy (@juliaxguila) who seems to give me five more followers every [...]
Feb 18
Video: Another kind of Museum Augmented Reality
I love finding these kind of videos and working out in my mind how to use them in museums. (Ignore the advert at the beginning)
This Wearable Computer Display from the students at the MIT Media Lab replaces the camera and view screen version with (from what I can tell) a backpack, a mini projector and [...]
Feb 18
MoMA Underground
The lines between museology and marketing will certainly blur in Museum Expansionism. If you took a museum exhibition out onto the street, you’d certainly want it branded to make people aware of who is behind it as well as promoting your museum. As museums explore further beyond their walls, what battlelines will be drawn?
This question [...]
Feb 17
Tinker it now Video: Museum as Platform.
Tinker it now has a blog post that comes with this video explaining the intent: creating a software platform for museum to expand outside “kiosk interactivity”. This video uses an RFID tag, a wifi system and programs built for the iPhone.
I’m just imagining this idea linked to the previous video: a handheld that can act [...]
