I’m especially enthusiastic about what the iPad means for art museums, galleries, and artists. Already there are some wonderful iPhone apps from the Van Gogh museum, Louvre, and others…and they might only get better. How about annotated Taschen books? Imagine what you could do with an iPad app for Art Basel? Thomas P. Campbell, Director of the Met tells the WSJ: “We will absolutely continue publishing beautiful books about our own collections. But I also want to make sure that we put energy and attention into getting all the collections online, or as much as is reasonable, because we have two million objects. At a time when scholarship is rapidly advancing, are you best serving a collection by publishing a three-volume catalog of 800 pieces, where much of it becomes out of date within six months?” Previously.
Americans Doing More, Buying Less, a Poll Finds: “The Department of Labor’s time-use surveys show… compared with 2005, Americans spent less time in 2008 buying goods and services and more time cooking or taking part in ‘organizational, civic and religious activities.’ Just as tellingly, evidence can also be found in culture. While one new study shows that attendance at museums and cultural events dropped from 2002 to 2008, it has climbed in 2009 at many major institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago. Movie attendance was also up 5 percent in 2009, and in the world of the Walt Disney Company, product sales have declined as the company’s theme parks enjoyed a 3 percent increase in visitors last quarter.”
There’s an entire museum devoted to counterfeit objects — Musee de la Contrefacon (The Museum of Counterfeiting) founded in 1951.
More fake curators please. (Actually, the reason I picked the URL was because I hoped people would mistake it for a real place, as some physical location/organization/backing sponsorship grants a blogger immediate authority. From the start most of my google alerts were people’s “to do” lists and sometimes when I say the title of this site in my head I think of it as “Tomorrow: Museum”)
“In April, I gave 13 UW graduate students a simple challenge: make an exhibit that gets strangers to talk to each other. 10 weeks, $300, and a whole lot of post-it notes later, they succeeded.” – Nina Simon at Museum 2.0. More on bathroom wall annotation and going places alone.
New Curator on the Dutch Museum Plus Bus, which transports senior citizens from nursing homes to museums, “If transport is a barrier to museums, then provide transport.”
I’ve got a review of the MFA Rachel Whiteread and ICA Tara Donovan shows on Bostonist today.
Steve: The Museum Tagging Project. The Guggenheim, the Cleveland Museum, the Met, and SFMOMA are some of the program participants. (via.)
Here’s a rendering of the UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, New Mexico. (via.)
“It was, indeed, a saccharine-fest. But it’s so over the-top that it’s worthwhile if you happen to be in possession of some Grade A Cali medicinal. There is so much color and so much light and it’s so relentless that you leave the exhibit feeling as if you just spent a binge weekend in Vegas: your brain is slightly numb and you can’t quite remember what happened, but you’re certain you had a very good time.” – C-Monster on the Dale Chihuly exhibit in San Francisco.
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