C’mon, I’ve got to add Matt Held to the ArtFriday list, haven’t I?
I first mentioned Matt back in February when I first heard about his brilliant facebook group. It had about 300+ members then. That number’s about 4600 now and he’s now up to 52 portraits. None of them are me, before you ask.
I’ve chosen these [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Jun 26
ArtFriday: Matt Held
Jun 23
Museum’s Most Important Function Part III
Back in January, I asked the question off the back of a Museum Association youtube video; What is the single most important function of a museum?
From the responses of my twitter followers and blog comments, I made a list and made a Wordle that turned out to be quite popular.
Earlier this month, Bruce Sterling linked to [...]
Jun 22
“Why I Am Not a Curator”
Think about what defining skills make up the professional museum world. I don’t mean the people who are marketing, finance etc. No disrespect meant. I know that they provide excellent and necessary services that require a lot of knowledge about museums, but I believe that a good cultural marketing person would be a good marketing [...]
Jun 19
ArtFriday: Libby Saylor
Two things I have to reward: patience and initiative. Initiative, because Libby emailed me with pictures of her artwork and I do like receiving things like that. It brightens things up no end to know that you are a person somebody wants to show their art to. Patience, because Libby emailed me ages ago just [...]
Jun 17
Mobile AR
Another flurry of Augmented Reality videos doing the rounds at the moment. This time, it’s about AR in mobile phones.
Via O’Reilly Radar, an AR Game called ARhrrrr where you run around a paper map with AR buildings shooting zombies.
Via Futurismic, an app called Layar — a mobile augmented reality browser.
I suppose what these videos demonstrate [...]
Jun 16
Elgin KerPlunk
The Acropolis Museum in Athens opens and the media whirlwind picks up again. Apparently, there was “fury” at Hannah Boulton’s statement about the British Museum loaning objects on conditions of recognition of the British Museum’s ownership.
Which has always been their policy.
Which Neil MacGregor said over two years ago.
I wonder where all this was drummed up [...]
Jun 15
Monday Catch-Up
As I lost most of last week, there was a serious build-up of things that I couldn’t possibly blog about individually.
I dropped a lot of things into Tumblr. Highlight include a Museum Samurai, the return of a looted Afghan bronze chicken and Julia Oldham giving me The Fear.
15 things went on the delicious bookmarks, mainly [...]
Jun 12
Update
I’ve been missing for most of this week and what a week of problems it was.
First, tried to get this site working with Feedburner. Figured gaining a few pennies via the RSS feeds would be worth it. The plugin THEY recommended broke the entire site. Thanks to @ncartmuseum for coming up with a fix.
Secondly, was [...]
Jun 08
Uni of Wyoming to lose Geological Museum, Spine, Integrity…
For those of you who don’t know, I’m in the UK. For those of you who don’t know much about the UK, I can tell you that every single one of us has a deep rooted fascination and admiration for dinosaurs. It’s written into our code from a very early age because we were all [...]
Jun 08
Changing the Rules: Museum Economies
Thinking back to the Standing Orders of John Robb, there was one that I struggled with and almost dismissed as being particular for a rising insurgency and not a reasonable guideline for museums.
Standing Order 2 – Grow Black Economies.
I focused on the outcome above the methods, that aiming for financial (and therefore, structural/political) autonomy was [...]
Jun 05
ArtFriday: Christi Nielsen
This week on ArtFriday, I want to show you the photography of Christi Nielsen. I have chosen three images from her I’m Just About to Get Skinny series, a highly sensitised and personal analysis of body image. What keeps me returning to Christi work is the way she manages to orchestrate a sense of empathy [...]
Jun 04
John Robb’s Standing Orders
John Robb scares me. Not through any kind of intimidation, but the fact that his blog Global Guerrillas is such a treasure trove of articles analysing the future. Robb’s focus is the future of military and warfare, but mainly how a massive bureaucratic money pit of a nation’s army can be brought to stalemate by a [...]
Jun 01
Museum “Fans”
From Paul Orselli
How would museum staffers do things differently if they were trying to increase the number of museum “fans” instead of “customers” or “guests” or “visitors”?
The examples were the fans of sports teams, Harry Potter and… a hotel. I’m going to dismiss the hotel because anyone could put a list of famous names for [...]
