You remember what I was saying a while back about Teknomagi? Keep that in mind and watch this video of a delightfully well-spoken dancer in a cubicle surrounded by synthersizer switches.
Conductive body paint allows for electrical current to pass through without frying bit of skin in the process. What you’re seeing in this video is [...]
Not only does Michael Radcliffe make really good paintings that I do covet greatly, he is also worth following on twitter, making this ArtFriday also a bit of a #followfriday. Make sure you do.
Watch this video.
I spent a long while trying to find the right video to demonstrate a point, a lot of them were getting silly with the potential applications. This one only makes one, “You’re phone could change into a laptop then back into a phone”. No it couldn’t, unless you phone was already the size [...]
I have about 260 feeds going into my Google Reader. Many of them are Google Alerts or delicious subscription-type feeds. I sit in a torrent of information from a plethora of sources. All day, I’ve seen a billion people talking about Ben Stiller printing money. Not that long ago, I stopped trying to report on every [...]
Look at this list from the AAM about five ways to engage legislators. I’ll summarise.
1. Invite them over to talk
2. Phone them up to arrange a talk
3. Hang around places where they hang out and try to talk to them.
4. Write them letters about what will happen if they don’t talk to you.
5. Stalk them [...]
Watch this typography-lead video about the Smithsonian’s “Call to Action”
My response: Step 1: Find a better forum for ideas than video responses on Youtube.
Step 2: Think of something completely new.
I had no doubt in my mind who I wanted to exhibit for the new ArtFriday. I’ve been wanting to put Tiffany Horan’s stuff on here for a while. She was part of the ArtFriday social network but went to Bahrain before she could submit anything.
The other reason for wanting to display Tiffany’s art is [...]
This is the third time I’m trying out ArtFriday. The first one was just an open call that took ages as I unpicked emails and twitter direct messages. The second ArtFriday was based around a social network that was bulky and burnt bandwidth like no tomorrow.
I’m going to try something different this time. Instead [...]
Metrocurators is the term I used to describe a new generation of curator that’s lightweight, deals in very little bureaucracy, has a DIY attitude because of very limited funds and basically is running all over a city pushing small outbreaks of museums into public spaces. The motivation and the survival of a Metrocurator is based upon [...]
The Daily Express: TEN THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT… MUSEUMS (Only eight niche museums mentioned).
Wall Street Journal: Twelve Oddly Specific Museums Preserving Our History.
Well. I’ll probably never do this feature again. This sort of list crops up all the time.
No, this isn’t another blog war. This is me remixing two blog posts a la Jason Nevins Vs. Run DMC.
I found these two blog posts at roughly the same time and was intrigued at the sense they made when put into other/wider contexts. This is partly an experiment, and party because whenever I see two [...]
The University of the West of Scotland have donated to the National Trust for Scotland a foot-high statue by Alexander Stoddart in the hope it can be auctioned to finance a whole museum about Robert Burns.
Wait, what?
So let me get this straight: stuff that goes into a museum cannot be sold to pay the bills or [...]
For no other reason that vanity, but also proving that The NEWCURATOR Twitter Acquisition/Disposal Policy works. I have been blocking every follow-hoarder, every spam zombie, every single person trying to sell me something and every single “marketing strategist”. I followed every museum worker or artist (allowing to be liberal with the definition).
I didn’t-follow-back only those who [...]
As part of my daily routine, I check where traffic is coming from and where it’s going (so if you could allow google analytics if you have a javascript blocker, it would really help). This time, I checked who’s been saving newcurator links on delicious.com. It was this one that caught my eye.
Shockingly bad blog [...]
I was reading this article in the New York Times, My Dream Is for Sale; Buy It for Me, an article about the Collectors Committee weekend at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art:
The concept is simple: after curators argue for their proposed acquisitions, collectors, who have ponied up money to participate in the event, vote on what [...]
The advertising agency Mother has opened a gallery space called Downstairs at Mother with the first exhibition being a selection of Peter Blake prints. Alongside the opening is the CCA Art Bus, a London double-decker with art displays up top ad educational facilities on the bottom deck.
There are two quotes I want to pull from the Creative [...]
Last video today, I promise.
The Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam had an exhibition enhanced by the AR+RFID Lab using… Augmented Reality and RFID tags. Just look at the possibilities this kind of system has, especially for handling collections or archaeology-heavy museums.
We just need to work out a decent way for this to be in a [...]
I’ve wanted to show this video for a while, not just because it’s pretty amazing but also because it is a very creative way to make a point/display information. Everything about the BMW museum is to display the elements of design that goes into every car, established by the different car outlines appearing. You also [...]
Two videos for you of two amazing niche museums
First, The Museum of Drugs in Mexico
Next, a shakey cam video of the Square Enix Museum in Tokyo.
This is an odd idea I’ve been entertaining for a while which only came to a head after a joke James Gleventhal started. Sometimes, ideas just need a name.
Whilst I’ve had guest posts before, it’s normally because I’ve been away for long periods or just bored with the museum news. I always gave people credit [...]
