20 new developments:
- Chatroulette, the bizarre new video social web craze.
- “How It Is”, the iPHone app version of the Miroslaw Balka exhibit at Tate Modern: intriguing, but hard to “use”.
- Design Competition for the Freedom and Unity Memorial in Berlin.
- Museum of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences put on indefinite hold.
- Conference in Ireland: “Exhibitions-from Ideas to Opening” Feb 26-28.
- High Line designer Field Operations wins park job in Santa Monica.
- Behold the Hiperwall (sic): “a wall of monitors displaying large quantities of information at a single glance.”
- New public video art installation destined for LAX.
- The ikTag from Mediamatic could link museum visitors to their online profiles w/RFID.
- $38M gift to build a “don’t-call-it-a-presidential-library” for George Washington at Mount Vernon.
- Paola Antonelli’s next MoMA exhibit, Talk To Me, will delve into information design and graphic design.
- Curator Shaquille O’Neal.
- “The Augmented Museum” lecture and webcast.
- Serial killer’s “death car” goes on display at DC crime museum – but should it?
- Museum of the American Gangster coming to NYC.
- In the Times: Exhibit designer Jerome Neuner, the Invisible Hand Behind MoMA’s Shows.
- ‘Decode’ digital art exhibit at the V&A reviewed at Rhizome.org.
- The New York City Museum of Complaint.
- Chicago Trib: Virtual Museums Grow Popular.
- HuffPo: Henry Louis Gates Jr. Donates Handcuffs To Smithsonian Black History Museum.
