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Populism, Commercialism, and Jeffrey Deitch: The Shifting Debate about LA MOCA

Museum 2.0

Here's what happened: In 2010, amidst severe financial woes and declining audiences, the Museum of Contemporary Art in LA (MOCA), hired Jeffrey Deitch, a NYC gallery owner, to be their new director. Deitch--and to an even greater degree, Eli Broad--have expressed clearly that they want to expand the audience at MOCA.

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Wandering Down the "Don't Touch" Line

Museum 2.0

Focus on family audiences. Engagement with local artists. One of the things we love about exhibiting local artists is that they are often here to talk with visitors about their work. It's not unusual to see an artist showing a visitor how she constructed something or created an effect. This was amazing.

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

Museum 2.0

I'm fascinated by these places because of their ability to attract diverse audiences to idiosyncratic experiences, and I'm curious how they stay afloat. From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences.

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Nonprofit Mergers - When Churches Merge

ASU Lodestar Center

Redemption Merger: Similar Vision, Differing Models & Audiences. New City Merger: Similar Vision, Models & Audiences. Both churches also had an emphasis on serving the downtown artist community. EVB had well-established programs for children, families, and older adults. Like this article? Get another! "Is

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Lead or Follow: Arts Administrators Hash it Out

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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? Here are three of my favorites.

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Peace Games & International Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We decided to follow our artists and engage the audience on this issues. We're working with most web savvy audience. We're going to give out 10 $25K grants - one game in particular - University of Denver students created a game called Squeezed. Engage in some practices that overcome differences. First person pickers.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

The program is an experimental playground that bridges artists, students, chefs, comedians, hairdressers, bartenders, dancers, wrestlers and even tattoo artists to produce a community-led event. Collaborative programs with diverse groups bring in a variety of visitors causing new audiences to interact and connect.

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