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8 Museum Apps Doing Good

Care2

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 apps by Missouri History Museum. Louis apps by Missouri History Museum.

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Tales of faux donors scamming charities

Robert Weiner

The first letters came with small gifts memorializing certain people in history not known for being very nice, but other than that, they were not altogether bizarre (other than the checks… with no address, and envelopes, with no address, and I don’t think they ever had a post mark, come to think of it). I think you get the picture.

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On White Privilege and Museums

Museum 2.0

They tell histories of white male conquest. They present masterpieces by white male artists and innovations by white male scientists. When non-white stories are told, they are always flagged as such--an exhibition of Islamist scientific inventions or women pioneers or African-American artists.

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

Museum 2.0

It was started in 2003 and is run by Mark Allen and a collective of artists, many of whom have also been applying their talents by performing "interventions" at formal art institutions including LACMA, the Hammer Museum, and the Contemporary Art Museum in St. PieLab (Greensboro, AL). The doors of SLAM are never closed.

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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

Museum 2.0

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. Summertime concerts at the history museum? So perhaps the St. There''s quite a range.

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Game Friday: Lessons in Environmental Storytelling from an Imagineer

Museum 2.0

When I’m in MOMA, at least I know that as I go from room to room of the main collection, I’m not “missing” any particular era, genre, or artist. Did I miss a period in history by skipping a room or did the exhibition just gloss over that decade? The City Museum of St. In my head, I say, “I am in a museum. Where am I?

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

Does anyone in the room identify as an artist, by any chance? I just want to dispel the myth that we are not activists and that we are not artists. We're ignorant and don't understand the history of these oppressions and how they undermine our work as activists, and as allies, and undermines our solidarity with each other.

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