Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Art spaces masquerading as laundromats and letterpresses. In the past, I've highlighted a few--like 826 Valencia and the Denver Community Museum --that I think have already influenced the way many traditional cultural organization do business. Want some waffles with your art? Skill-sharing free schools.

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Culture Alternative St. Louis Los Angeles 49

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2006

Image courtesy of Luke Tan What you are looking at is a raining tree in front of the Asian Civilisations Museum , created by Dutch-born artist Iepe B. This tree/sprite/installation is a perfect example of what is, in my mind, the optimal tension between awesome content creation and visitor involvement. or create them on their own.

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Arts Singapore Museum Artist 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

What happens when you combine reality TV tactics with a traditional art collection? This guest post, written by Philippa Tinsley, Collections Manager for the Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum (UK), describes the innovative Top 40 exhibition they mounted in the summer of 2009.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape? But for museum and art wonks, it could be.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

During one of the most exciting periods in NASA's history, some of the toughest, most mission-critical work was being done behind the scenes by the astute minds of Johnson, Vaughn, and Jackson. Sheroes in the Arts. Gentileschi is remembered, however, as an accomplished Baroque artist whose trials did not define her art.

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Story Angola Sierra Leone History 133

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Ze Frank recently posed this question to several designers, filmmakers, and artists here , asking: When you make things with an audience in mind, do you have internal representations of that audience to help guide you in the process? My feeling as an exhibit designer is that I need to work somewhere between artist and product designer.

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Audience Artist Design Language 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street. Never mind your work experience, what do you really want to be doing that the library can help you accomplish?

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Chicago Library Public Culture 48

Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2007

I heard Frank Warren speak at the American Visionary Art Museum. In 2004, for DC’s Art-o-Matic community show, he initiated an experiment called PostSecret. Within five weeks, he had 100 postcards on display at Art-o-Matic. What makes this such a great community art project? Be legible - use big, clear and bold lettering.

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Generation Content Lesson Museum 30

Museum 2.0

MAY 4, 2007

It combines a job bank with news about developments in the gaming world and, my favorite, an impressive collection of feature articles on the art, business, and production of games. Two of the articles that most influenced me were written by Don Carson, Disney imagineer turned video game designer, about "environmental storytelling." (You

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