"Trends Map" from Now and Next
Weekly news about museum trends, museum planning, the future of museums and interactive kinetic sculpture for the week of November 14, 2011
Museum Planner Blog Post:
“The Future of Museum Interactivity?”, Interested in comments and feedback
https://museumplanner.org/future-of-interactivity/
Best school for Museum Studies? for Exhibition Design? Interested in your thoughts!
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Best-school-Museum-Studies-Exhibition-2965314.S.80382119?view=&gid=2965314&type=member&item=80382119
Museum / Exhibition Openings:
Cheap trick to open museum in Chicago
http://news.yahoo.com/cheap-trick-plans-eatery-museum-chicago-131847416.html
Kinetica Art Fair 2012, February 2012
kinetica-artfair.com
Jean Paul Gaultier exhibition opens at the Dallas Museum of Art
http://www.wwd.com/eye/design/jean-paul-gaultier-exhibit-goes-to-dallas-5362967
http://www.dm-art.org/View/Gaultier/AboutJPG/index.htm
“Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration,” opens at the American Museum of Natural History
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/science/beyond-planet-earth-museum-review-oh-the-places-we-could-go.html
Crystal Bridges Museum opens, built by heiress of Walmart, anti-Walmart protesters
http://crystalbridges.org/
http://nwahomepage.com/fulltext-news?nxd_id=284727
Princeton University’s opens “Art of Science”
http://www.princeton.edu/artofscience/gallery2011/
BMW Guggenheim Lab Berlin to Open in May 2012
http://www.dexigner.com/news/24158#ixzz1dtDG8m3j
NYT review of “Eat, Sleep, Play” at Children’s Museum of Manhattan
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/11/arts/design/eatsleepplay-at-childrens-museum-of-manhattan.html
http://www.cmom.org/explore/exhibits/eat_sleep_play_building_health_every_day
Kohl Children’s Museum opens “Powered by Nature”
http://www.kohlchildrensmuseum.org/exhibits/permanent/powered-by-nature
Review of “Pacific Standard Time” exhibitions in New York Times, fantastic!
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/arts/design/pacific-standard-time-art-exhibitions-in-la-review.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.pacificstandardtime.org/
Metropolitan Museum of Art opens new Islamic Art Wing
http://blog.metmuseum.org/newgalleries2011/en/video-audio
Ed Rothstein NYT review of the $70M remodeling of the New York Historical Society
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/11/arts/design/revolution-at-the-new-york-historical-society.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
“Electric is the Love” opens at the Laumeier Sculpture Park, looks like a nice show
http://www.laumeiersculpturepark.org/Kranzberg_2011
Resources:
Lawrence Hall of Science, Report on California Science Education, “High Hopes – Few Opportunities”, Berkeley
http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/sites/lawrencehallofscience.org/files/user-jnoe/2011sci%20summary%20forpress.pdf
New Art/Science Affinities:
http://millergallery.cfa.cmu.edu/nasabook/newartscienceaffinities.pdf
NEA report on 2.1 million artists in the USA
http://arts.gov/news/news11/Research-Note-105.html
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, an international document on human rights
http://www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?id=259
American Planning Association report “How Arts and Cultural Strategies Create, Reinforce, and Enhance Sense of Place”
http://www.planning.org/research/arts/briefingpapers/pdf/character.pdf
Wonderful report from the James Irvine Foundation, “Getting in on the Act”
http://irvine.org/images/stories/pdf/grantmaking/Getting-in-on-the-act-2011OCT19.pdf
Job Postings:
Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University announces an opening for an Associate Registrar
Yale.edu/jobs STARS ID 14670
Articles of Interest:
Facial Recognition used to gather demographics
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/business/face-recognition-moves-from-sci-fi-to-social-media.html
Space Elevator? Interactive Dinner Plate, Robot Office “Workers”, welcome to Google X
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/14/technology/at-google-x-a-top-secret-lab-dreaming-up-the-future.html?pagewanted=1
Lawmakers Ask Brooklyn Museum To Pull ‘Christianity-Bashing’ Film ‘A Fire In My Belly’
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/11/15/lawmakers-ask-brooklyn-museum-to-pull-christianity-bashing-film-a-fire-in-my-belly/
Does 3D printing infringe on Copyright?
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/disruptions-the-3-d-printing-free-for-all/
Downey Art Museum “Melt Down”, fascinating behind the scenes dealing
http://downeybeat.com/2011/11/after-board-meltdown-downey-museum-of-art-looking-for-a-home-72957/