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Is it OK to Smash That? The Complications of Living Art Museums

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Every day for the past two months, a man has entered the largest gallery in my museum. The man is artist Rocky Lewycky , whose work is part of a group show of visual artists who have won a prestigious regional fellowship. It also complicates the question of what is acceptable in a museum. This is not a crime.

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Hack the Museum Camp Part 2: Making Magic, Reality TV, and Risk as a Red Herring

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Last week, my museum hosted Hack the Museum Camp , a 2.5 day adventure in which teams of adults--75 people, of whom about half are museum professionals, half creative folks of various stripes--developed an experimental exhibition around our permanent collection in our largest gallery.

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Wandering Down the "Don't Touch" Line

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How do you help visitors know what they can and cannot do in your museum? Most museums have this figured out: they have signs, they have guards, they have cases over the objects. I used to think these were easy questions to answer. Art, however, does not come to museums pre-hardened. Focus on family audiences.

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Lead or Follow: Arts Administrators Hash it Out

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Last week, Douglas McLellan of artsJournal ran a multi-vocal forum on the relationship between arts organizations and audiences, asking: In this age of self expression and information overload, do our artists and arts organizations need to lead more or learn to follow their communities more?

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Think Like a (Real Estate) Developer: Introducing Abbott Square, Part 9

Museum 2.0

This is the ninth in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ( MAH )'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. Working with creative people taught me to think like an artist: observe, explore, dive in, look out. The question is not, “what do I want to do?”

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Getting in on the Act: New Report on Participatory Arts Engagement

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It is framed as a kind of study guide; pop-outs provide questions that tease out opportunities and tensions in the narrative. How did the authors come up with the intriguing blend of curatorial, interpretative, and inventive opportunities shown in the Audience Involvement Spectrum's Venn diagrams?

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Boosting Your Association's Revenue with Attractive Microcopy

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Have you ever been to a restaurant, museum or shopping mall and needed to use the bathroom? Now imagine you’re looking for the bathroom on a 6-inch screen, and instead of walking around, asking folks questions, all you can do is tap on things with your thumb. You begin by looking up and around for any sort of signage.