“And as museums open up for participation around collections, documentation, program activities and exhibitions, a key ingredient is trust. With trust contribution, collaboration and co-creation is possible. If museums are perceived as safe spaces for contribution and collaboration, if the audience trusts the museum, it is possible to achieve real social impact in society.”
https://medium.com/@kajsahartig/museums-as-safe-spaces-or-comfort-zones-some-thoughts-37aaaad0b535
“Art can illuminate the fissures in society and in return offer opportunities for healing. But should artists be the only ones to bear the brunt of this responsibility? If museums want to continue to have a place, they must stop seeing activists as antagonists. They must position themselves as learning communities, not impenetrable centers of self-validating authority.”
By Olga Viso—Ms. Viso is an independent curator and museum consultant, and a former museum director.
A Space of Their Own aims to compile the most comprehensive resource to date for information on female artists active in the United States and Europe during this time.
A New Illustrated Database for Women Artists Spans the 15th to 19th Centuries
https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/09/museum-fire-risk-how-do-they-protect-collections-from-fire-and-water-damage.html
Museum conservators are racing to figure out how to preserve modern artworks and historical objects that are disintegrating.
Van Gogh, Hopper, the frangipani. These are only some of New York’s artistic treasures that have brought tourists to the city for generations. Now, they will be accessible to millions of additional New Yorkers, too, thanks to a new city initiative aimed at giving more residents access to iconic cultural destinations. All one needs is a public library card.
The new program, Culture Pass, will offer free admission to more than 30 institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum and the Louis Armstrong House. These are the cultural riches that make New York great, but for far too long, the price of admission was too high for far too many who lived here. Thankfully, the Culture Pass will help fix that.
A handy dandy guide to writing a successful NAEA conference proposal:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JXEGfLAOW4UgnEr2t3wjeUnfeZSBHzdJfvkAcUdwGg8/edit#slide=id.g35f391192_00
“In April, the Brooklyn Museum hired a white curator, Kristen Windmuller-Luna to oversee its collection of African art. The appointment outraged skeptics who felt that a black curator should oversee the institution’s African objects. Decolonize This Place, a New York activist group, staged a protest occupying the museum’s Beaux-Arts Court and penned a letter publicly accusing the museum of racism and aiding gentrification, demanding prompt change. One protester flung a pink banner over a balcony that read: “THEY WANT THE ART, NOT THE PEOPLE.”
The sign, for me, gets at the heart of the debate around how to combat racism in cultural institutions, which are both succeeding and failing to address the issue.”
