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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

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From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students. PieLab (Greensboro, AL).

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

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People often ask me which museums are my favorite. I visit lots of perfectly nice, perfectly forgettable museums. In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum. Some are scrappy and iconoclastic, like the City Museum in St.

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Game Friday: Lessons in Environmental Storytelling from an Imagineer

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If anyone out there is considering creating an industry catch-all site for museum-related content, I highly recommend Gamasutra as a model. Can museums afford to indulge in this kind of fantasy? Carson argues that environments have to answer two user questions immediately: “Where am I?” In my head, I say, “I am in a museum.

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