There were 32 new developments:
- In multimedia exhibition, Asian Art Museum captures Shanghai’s vibrancy, present and past.
- Vital 5 Productions’ Portland Art Museum Unauthorized Tour.
- Museum of Advertising Icons opens 2010 (follow Mr. Bubble).
- Museum Attendance Rises Despite (due to?) Recession. 40% are up “significantly,” esp. science museums.
- New exhibit: the art of DreamWorks (Madagascar, Monsters vs. Aliens, Shrek).
- African Burial Ground Visitor Center opens in NYC. Review. (NY Times) Sneak peek.
- Eye Candy: Olafur Eliasson’s Amazing New Art Installation.
- Wow. Interactive showroom, museum + resource center: Herzog & de Meuron’s Vitrahaus.
- Los Angeles Swaps 21 Billboards With Art.
- One of downtown Providence’s busiest streets will become a unique pop-up museum about itself.
- “None of these exhibit techniques are costly .. no computer interactives, no extra-special lighting”.
- “How much does exhibition design cost?” big ongoing discussion in Museum Design on LinkedIn.
- Elaine Heumann Gurian is putting her thoughts online.
- Provocative: Robert Storr* Battles ‘Death Star Museums‘. *Yale School of Art Dean
- “smARTphone” mobile tours launch at Dallas Museum of Art. Mobile web, not app. Also: http://dallasmuseumofart.mobi
- Enough. I declare the recession over. “Harbor Area museums could lose curators in city of LA budget cuts.”
- Great video of Jona Piehl of Land Design Studio on different examples of successful exhibition design.
- Okay, bear with me here: Global Tree Project on Legoclick.com (Lego site alone is worth seeing).
- Faltering state budgets? Cake from the future? Latest Research Roundup for museum futurists.
- Incredible multitouch sphere at the Innovation Lounge at TED.
- Futures of the Past: Where Is Historic Preservation Headed? – Architect Magazine.
- Gesture-based interactivity (think Minority Report) debuts at TED.
- 2010 Whitney Biennial’s “monastically simple installation” – best ever?
- Yeouch. More bad news. Drastic, dreadful cuts to Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
- Jobs projections for museum curator careers are contradictory, puzzling. Bottom line: “Learn the web”.
- MoMA’s interactive space for kids, ShapeLab.
- Great museum idea: “Looking Into the Past” – hold up old pic in the modern location where it was taken.
- Whoa. Recognizr: augmented reality prototype that recognizes faces and links them to social media accounts.
- Should video art be clumped together when shown in big shows?
- More anti-crowdsourcing: artists “concerned” about a Sesame St. creative contest. I agree. And you?
- European scientists hope to archive world culture, will scan key artifacts in 3-D.
- Are you developing exhibitions, programs, or spaces using technology? AAM TIE 2010 webinar call for presenters.
