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

Museum 2.0

I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. 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. Skill-sharing free schools.

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Populism, Commercialism, and Jeffrey Deitch: The Shifting Debate about LA MOCA

Museum 2.0

Schimmel's departure was seen as the final confirmation of Deitch and Broad's populist, celebrity-driven approach to exhibitions, and that concerned many critics , artists , and museum directors in the art world. Attendance has increased in the past two years from 150,000 to 400,000 annually. I agree with the serious concerns in #1 and #2.

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Crowd Fundraising for the Arts: No Running, Walking, or Freezing Plunges Required

Connection Cafe

Here are 3 arts and cultural organizations that have given crowd fundraising a go for compelling causes: National Air & Space Museum. Denver Zoo. Denver Zoo cited that they chose crowdfundraising for the SNUGG because they had heard interest from many, but had no individual donor passionate enough to fund it alone.

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Lead or Follow: Arts Administrators Hash it Out

Museum 2.0

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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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

The program is an experimental playground that bridges artists, students, chefs, comedians, hairdressers, bartenders, dancers, wrestlers and even tattoo artists to produce a community-led event. Sometimes that results in an artist-led cascading collaborative sculpture of 475 visitor-made scrap metal fish.

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Dangerous/Ridiculous: Reflections on AAM

Museum 2.0

And I talked about some of the challenges of finding the right income and expense models for a museum that operates more like a community center than a traditional cultural institution. Eric talked about how the New York Hall of Science is trying to fund risk-taking, not just talk about it or under-resource it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" The model of State Department's Cultural Exchanges. We decided to follow our artists and engage the audience on this issues. We're going to give out 10 $25K grants - one game in particular - University of Denver students created a game called Squeezed. These are powerful experiences. Activism has evolved beyond sit-ins.

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