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Authenticity and Demystifying the Artistic Process: Walker Art Center Blogs - Part 2

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And, for a museum that is presenting contemporary art -- anything that helps us demystify the artistic process and better understand the art is, in my opinion, a good thing. This Walker Blog let's us peer into the inner workings of the art institution. So far we are treating blogs as informal communication tools where we.

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ISO Understanding: Rethinking Art Museum Labels

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But I’d been scribbling notes for an art museum label post for awhile, and then yesterday, the NY Times had a review of a new show at MOMA, Comic Abstraction. And it ended with this: No wonder it [MOMA] ends up showing shallow, label-dependent art rather than work that offers deeper, more contradictory encounters. The review was harsh.

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8 Museum Apps Doing Good

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ArtClix from the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. 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. MoMa by the Museum of Modern Art.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Inside the Design of an Amazing Museum Project to Capture People's Stories

Museum 2.0

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. Why did you choose this format instead of video? So what did you do next?

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How Do You Capture Compelling Visitor Stories? Interview with Christina Olsen

Museum 2.0

Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project. In the education department, we have some key values around slowing down, conversation and participation around art, and deep looking. We had planned on having it be video.

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Lewis Hyde at Berkman Center - OMG!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My first job in nonprofit and technology was as community manager for an online network of artists called ArtsWire in 1993 before the Web. The online interaction design was patterned after the Well - it was described as a WELL for artists. I've been Lewis Hyde fan ever since. For an amusing preview of the kind of analysis I???

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

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For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. Use the list to augment or inform your own strategy. Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. It was super cool.

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