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Museums and galleries should be using new technologies and media to teach, engage and immerse visitors in the art they are viewing, says Local Projects founder Jake Barton. Speaking at Wired 2012 about the future of cities, Barton explained how he was given the opportunity to help the Cleveland Museum of Art achieve this using touchscreens, live cameras and video, turning visitors into the curators of their own experience in the process.
Via Nikolaos Maniatis, Koula Charitonos, Antenna International
This week, one of the contributing authors here at ArtMuseumTeaching.com, Dana Carlisle Kletchka, brought to my attention a recent column from LA Youth written by 15-year-old Howard Hwang who felt ...
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"Long before smartphones turned so many of us into amateur photographers and revolutionised how we depict each other through social media, there were the works of French Impressionist Edouard Manet. Manet's portraits and how they were influenced by photography are the focus of "Manet: Portraying Life" at the Toledo Museum of Art, the only U.S. museum to host the exhibition before it moves to The Royal Academy of Arts in London next winter." via @Independent
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Experiences that provide for the professional and personal growth of teachers play an increasingly vital role in museums’ efforts to connect with educational reform. Faced with the complex de...
Via Susan Striepe
The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston is working with teenagers to enhance arts education and develop youth-oriented programming.
Via Susan Striepe
Robert Johnson, The Art of Retouching Photographic Negatives (1930) We humans are insatiable visual gluttons, peering into the empathic peepholes of Flickr photostreams and scavenging the...
Turkish officials are demanding ancient artifacts from Western museums, and aren’t timid about doing so. The museums say their mission to display global art treasures is under siege.
Images from the new Islamic art wing of the Louvre museum in Paris, built at a cost of nearly 100m euros.
"With over 500 million users, one in every 13 people on planet Earth is on Facebook. Museums, zoos, aquaria and other informal educational institutions have also jumped onto the Facebook bandwagon. Most use their page as a promotional tool – a kind of up-to-the-minute newsletter – informing their audience about events, programs and exhibitions. A few, but only a very few, use Facebook and other social media outlets as educational tools as well."
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Two separate national surveys gauging youth and adult participation in the arts reported yesterday that visits to art museums are declining.
Via Susan Striepe
Wall Street Journal (blog)Art Stage Singapore Makes Space for IndonesiaWall Street Journal (blog)To improve their visibility, Art Stage Singapore 2013 will include dedicated space for Indonesian galleries and an exhibition of about 30 Indonesian...
The Met museum in NY has uploaded quite a number of old exhibition catalogs that can now be browsed onine. Check out the photography collection at the link.
Via mrstock, Mario Pires
"To address the most important issue first: there is no such thing as digital storytelling. There’s only storytelling in the digital age, and frankly speaking this isn’t much different from storytelling in the age of hunters, gatherers, dinosaurs and ICQ. This doesn’t mean it cannot be challenging to tell a story people react upon online. On any given moment, hundreds of stories are unfolding around you, on Facebook, Twitter, and in niche social spaces. Many of them are much more interesting than anything a museum can possibly offer, at least, in the right here right now (because Justin Bieber might have really died this time, and you don’t want to be the last person to retweet that, do you?)." via @jaspervisser
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National Museum of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore. 5,242 likes · 404 talking about this · 83 were here. The National Museum of Singapore is celebrating its 125th birthday today, 13 October 2012. It's Open House all day with lots of fesivities going on. Come celebrate with the museum !
Singapore Recasts Itself as Newest Asian Art HubNew York Times“The Economic Development Board realized that in order to make Singapore a world-class city, they needed to establish more of an artistic infrastructure,” said Sundaram Tagore, president...
Was Leonardo da Vinci's famous anatomical chart actually a collaborative effort?
PARIS - In its boldest development in a generation, the Louvre Museum has a new wing dedicated to Islamic art, a nearly (euro) 100 million ($130 million) project that comes at a tense time between the West and the Muslim world.
The Wedding Dress: 200 Years of Wedding Fashion from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London in the National Museum of Singapore from 8 August until 31 October 2012
B NEW YORK, NY.- /B A groundbreaking exhibition that unites masterpieces of Chinese sculpture from the famed sixth‐century cave temples at Xia...
Via David Connolly, Nik Morris
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