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8 Museum Apps Doing Good

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ArtClix from the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Museum visitors can use the in-app camera to photograph individual works of art which the app recognizes to serve up information about the piece, comments from past visitors, and for some works, audio orientations from the artist. Historic St. Louis’ storied past.

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Tales of faux donors scamming charities

Robert Weiner

Tale #4: Most recently we had one alumnus promise us his art collection and then went to post an article online about how he strung us along – he actually posted our email exchanges online through a local newspaper where he was a freelancer…. The husband portrayed themselves as major philanthropists from St.

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On White Privilege and Museums

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

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Art spaces masquerading as laundromats and letterpresses. Machine Project is a non-profit storefront arts venue that hosts a dizzying array of eclectic classes, workshops, events, and occasional exhibits. Want some waffles with your art? Skill-sharing free schools. Community science workshops.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

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In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum. Other institutions are idiosyncratic in their relationship to their environment, like the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, or to their community, like the Wing Luke Asian Museum.

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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

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This summer, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published the kind of "how sausage is made" story that rarely gets written about the arts. It''s about museum attendance and how the five big, free museums in St. Louis count it. Outdoor movies at the art museum? So perhaps the St. There''s quite a range.

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Game Friday: Lessons in Environmental Storytelling from an Imagineer

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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. Getting people to play scientist or art historian may be a tougher sell than getting them to play James Bond. The City Museum of St.

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