Museum 2.0
AUGUST 28, 2013
Earlier in 2013, I was amazed to visit one of the new “Studio” spaces at the Denver Art Museum. The Denver Art Museum is no stranger to community collaborations, but we’ve been dipping in our toe a little more deeply when it comes to developing permanent participatory installations. Some community artists even helped install the space.
Museum 2.0
AUGUST 1, 2012
The first wave of critique focused on the very valid question of why Schimmel was fired in this manner. 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.
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Museum 2.0
MARCH 21, 2012
I used to think these were easy questions to answer. At the museum of art and history where I work, we are grappling with the question of how to help people enjoy themselves while keeping the art and artifacts safe. Engagement with local artists. What if you WANT them to touch certain things?
Museum 2.0
FEBRUARY 1, 2012
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? How do you respond to this question?
Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 26, 2012
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.
Museum 2.0
JUNE 25, 2009
In this guest post, Bruce Wyman, Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum, shares his process for developing interactive technologies to extend familiar experiences in art museums. You may remember the Denver Art Museum from this post about their newest (highly interactive) exhibit space, Side Trip.
Museum 2.0
MAY 9, 2012
Attendees brought up questions about how they can get more involved with financial discussions in their institutions, how we can change the ways we approach fundraising, how we can think about earned income differently. The conversation about community engagement at AAM has evolved, and this year, it had a distinctly social practice/art bent.
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