hell yes

Sorry, I know it’s been a while. We’d write more, but we’ve been partying for 336 hours straight at the New Museum. We’ll need a little time to recover.

blogger to curate show in FirstLife

Wowzers! Blogger and photographer Laurel Ptak, who runs the twee-ly undercased photography blog, i heart photograph, will be curating a real-life art show at the tony-ly uppercased Higher Pictures Gallery on Madison Ave and 66th St.…

lolcuriosities

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University gets its institutional wordpress on with a new blog, Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities. According to their “about” page:

Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities features new acquisitions, unique documents,

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museum 2 collabo

Museum 2.0 launches a new project this week, coLAB, in conjunction with the New York Hall of Science, which allows anyone to participate in the once rarefied world of curators and meddling board members.  From now until October…

people posing with paintings 2: american gothic

Pictures of people posing with or looking at Grant Wood’s American Gothic at the Art Institute of Chicago.

The is the second in a still-unnamed Suggested Donation regular feature of pictures of people posing with the same object in…

suggested donation suggests: museums in libya 2.0

Disturbed by the minimal web presence of Libyan Museums? Lamusediffuse, “a group of Fulbright Scholars from different parts of the World, sharing a common interest in improving lives for individuals by improving access to culture through digital…

MoOM-MoOM Room

Coudal Partners, which seems to be the Hanso Foundation of the tote bag and web design set, continues to update their excellent Museum of Online Museums.

The MoOM features an ever-changing, curated, list of links to museums and…

people posing with paintings

Pictures of people posing with and looking at Eduoard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l’herbe) at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.

This is the first in an ongoing series of museum-related…

geocity museum of www

A partial list of museums with websites hosted on Geocities:

• The Union City Historical Museum (Union City, California. USA)
• The National Museum of Bangkok (Bangkok, Thailand)
• Auman Museum of Radio and Television (Dover, Ohio. USA)
• The Museum of

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stumbleupon library

After twenty years of collecting the 60,000+ ephemeral films the make up the Prelinger Archives (acquired by the Library of Congress in 2002), Rick and Megan Prelinger founded the Prelinger Library in 2004.

The Prelinger Library is an

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supersize my smithsonian souvenirs!

Just listened to this report about how the Smithsonian hired the retail-oriented consultancy group BerglassGrayson to evaluate their gift shops. Unsurprisingly, the firm returned with blazing criticism, lambasting the museum stores for their under performance and inefficiency…

upcoming explorations in convergence: eileen quinlan at whitney at altria

In a case of either actual curatorial independence or too-good-to-be-true “synergy”, The Whitney Museum of Art at Altria (née Phillip Morris) has announced their upcoming exhibition Undone: Tom Holmes, Tony Matelli, Eileen Quinlan, and Heather Rowe, opening September…