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What I Learned from Beck (the rock star) about Participatory Arts

Museum 2.0

Song Reader didn''t come as a CD, or an LP, or a bunch of digital audio files. It is what it sounds like: a book of original sheet music, beautifully designed and complemented with artwork and text. Beck talks about this in the context of learning to play music as a young artist. There are twenty songs in Song Reader.

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ISO Understanding: Rethinking Art Museum Labels

Museum 2.0

But I’d been scribbling notes for an art museum label post for awhile, and then yesterday, the NY Times had a review of a new show at MOMA, Comic Abstraction. The collection is disaggregated, grouped by floor (Painting and Sculpture 1) rather than artist, movement, time period, or geography. MOMA has standard art museum labels.

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. A creative fundraiser can make any of these items sound attractive to the donor. Send a video or audio “thank you” through social media or email. You just need to show proof of membership.

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Adventures in Artist-Driven Public Engagement: Machine Project at the Hammer Museum

Museum 2.0

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? No, this is not a reality TV show.

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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

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Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end. The Love Lounge I LOVE.

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Why Click! is My Hero (What Museum Innovation Looks Like)

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No, these are neither the words of a self-important curator nor a well-spoken museum director. the crowd-curated photo exhibition now open at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. It is a substantive research contribution by the museum to the social technology field at large. Things like this are far and few between.

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