January 2011
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The Changing Role of Art Museums
Pipilotti Rist at The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Anne Helmond.
Beyond exhibition and education, the role of the art museum is to build a seminal collection worthy of study and conservation. However, recent declines in funding and attendance set arts administrators on edge. They fear museums are not communicating with the public and losing audience-base. Historian Thomas Crow observes in The...
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Painting is Alive and Well
Summer Wheat, Ravenous Eye-Sucker, 2010.
Aya Takano, The Many Layers of Air: Shinjuku, 2010.
Elizabeth Peyton, Michelle and Sasha Obama Listening to Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention August 2008, 2008.
George Condo, Improvised Figures, 2010.
Lisa Yuskavage, Safety Orange, 2010.
Raymond Pettibon, No Title, 2010.
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Homespun Museums
Too often do we take for granted the organization of a museum’s collection. When the success of an organization is significantly due to preservation of a legacy and storage is not an option, displays are filled to the brim with donations of personal memorabilia, family heirlooms, and rare artifacts—each bearing a story. This is mostly seen in the case of small nonprofit organizations...
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Top 5 Dream Jobs (Updated)
Last year’s list of dream jobs needs an update. Revisions are italicized.
1. Bert Ulrich’s job: NASA Art Curator & Visual Identity
2. Art critic / researcher
3. Director, curator, or art educator
4. Studio manager / project manager… for Tom Sachs
5. Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies / Information Arts
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Thesis Starts Now!
I have to start writing my thesis… Today is the first day of Winter quarter and I am registered for my last class towards my masters: Arts Administration M.A. Thesis. I’m excited to get started, but the break was so long—6 weeks out of the swing. Now I need to dive in and continue my research and start writing. As of right now, my working title is “Convergent Innovation:...
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VA-22 and the USS Coral Sea
I’ve been trying to get info from my dad about his time flying A-7s on the USS Coral Sea, flying adversary for Top Gun, etc. Sadly, I know so little. But every now and then he emails me photos with tidbits about his Naval career. Here’s some photos that he took during his time on the USS Coral Sea circa 1973. His attack squadron was VA-22 The Fighting Red Cocks.
He...