Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

Two weeks ago, Roberto Bedoya asked several arts bloggers, including me, to write a post reflecting on Whiteness and its implications for the arts. I am in no way an expert in issues related to racial and ethnic representation in the arts. They present masterpieces by white male artists and innovations by white male scientists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

In two weeks, several hundred arts leaders from around the country will gather on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University to discuss the role of technology in the arts field at the Technology in the Arts Conference. Tell me a little bit about how you got into arts management? Was that your progression? Actually, I???m

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

I've now been the Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz for two months. But the point is that the MAH, like just about every other museum in the known universe, was content to define the museum experience as something removed from the outside world, a rarefied church-like space of refined artistic reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

The "Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images" exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art manages to both celebrate and betray fair use at the same time. These are canonical fair uses -- an artist who takes from another artist and uses his work to make new work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2013

Flickr Image by Sam Howzit. Images, visuals, videos, and infographics are being staples of nonprofit’s content strategy, especially for social channels. It isn’t a good idea to just grab an image from Internet, tweak it, and call it your own. Here’s a round up of resources and advice.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

I've written before about the inspiring work that the Brooklyn Museum of Art is doing with their community-focused efforts. They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. Let's start simple.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2007

But this week, two articles about art, in the NYT and the Washington Post Magazine respectively, called out to be combined into a post about the role of visitors in art interpretation. The NYT article is about a photography show by artist Thomas Struth at the Marian Goodman Gallery in Manhattan. We look for ourselves.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I saw every part of our vacation through the lens of the book, and my climbing partner (a highly active and artistic guy) and I spent a lot of time analyzing the choices we did and didn't make and how they reflected our expressions of identity. In both cases, our identity needs were met.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

We saw that these artists were using the wall, then telling us about it on Flickr. If you look at the IMA (Indianapolis Museum of Art), they’ve got that going on in YouTube. Do you have any image rights issues? We’re very clear about our photography policy everywhere. Were they really using it as a post-visit resource?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

This week's Ask Britt question, sent in by a reader, is, "How can I combine the creative arts with social impact? The arts are a wonderful way to make a difference in the world because they are fun, engaging, and oftentimes help you to tell stories, all key elements to attracting and keeping people involved in a cause. Great question!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Crowds create original works of knowledge or art. The Royal Opera used Twitter to crowdsource a new opera. The opera staff collected the suggestions and summarized them on their blog. Opera is not the only art form, there’s been crowdsourced choreography – Dance Theatre Workshop. 2) Crowd Creation. A Crowd-Curated Exhibition.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Many of them had almost nothing by way of material resources, but they had imagination, and if you have imagination, you can, it turns out, light the dark with all kinds of creative arts. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. They are making progress.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2008

the crowd-curated photo exhibition now open at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. As James comments in the attached podcast (scroll down), Shelley’s team did something that he thought was “too hard” to do in his work—tackle the effect of crowds on the subjective question of art evaluation. Because Click! isn’t a standard exhibition.

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