Arts Blended Museum Question 
Museum 2.0
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
Every day for the past two months, a man has entered the largest gallery in my museum. blends sculpture, repetition, and ritual performance in a political statement about the genocide of animals in factory farms. It also complicates the question of what is acceptable in a museum. He smashes a sculpture of an animal.
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?
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Museum 2.0
JULY 17, 2013
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.
Museum 2.0
MARCH 3, 2011
Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. The guiding principle is uncovering relationships between the works of art themselves rather than explicating information or theoretical concepts.
Museum 2.0
NOVEMBER 8, 2011
Last month, the Irvine Foundation put out a new report, Getting In On the Act , about participatory arts practice and new frameworks for audience engagement. It is framed as a kind of study guide; pop-outs provide questions that tease out opportunities and tensions in the narrative.
Museum 2.0
MARCH 21, 2012
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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JULY 2, 2012
At the Sujaya School, I visited a second grade art class. The teacher introduced me as a visitor from America and asked if there the children wanted to ask me any questions. The first set of questions were typical for 7 or 8 eight year olds, asked in perfect English: ”What’s your favorite color? How deep is the Pacific Ocean?
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