Discussion of "Human Body World" and exhibit shown at Mannheim's Museum of Technology.
Discusses issues surrounding the display of human bones in Museums.
Specifically, exhibits at the Museum of London and the Rotterdam Kunsthal.
Stephen Wynn has spent nearly $200 million on art since 1996 at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas.
Article gives a comprehensive history of museum exhibitions
from the early 1900s to present. Details the growing importance of contextual
material and interactive art exhibits, digital media, areas
for families and children, timed events, civic investment and "entrepreneurial" shows.
Previews Guggenheim show due to open in Nov., 2001.
Grapples lightly with the high art vs. sentimental/kitchy art issues
surrounding the idea of Rockwell at the "museum of non-objective art."
"Detroit Institutions Are Entangled in the Politics of Race, Class and Labor."
An examination of the importance of exhibition
criticism in relation to exhibition development.
Explaination of the three most popular critical techniques: Yankee Trader, Houdini and LEGO.
"A student says that he was protesting art he thought was trite and banal."
Brings up questions regarding the Metropolitan's motives for holding
a Judith Rothschild retrospective. Critics feel that the musuem is trying to
win the favor of the Rothschild Foundation, in hope of gaining ownership of
part of Rothschild's personal collection which includes works
by Picasso, Mondrian, Leger, Gris and Brancusi.
"Selected offbeat, naughty, and outrageous events in the art world between 1902-1997."
Lecture given by internationally renowned
scholar which addresses the idea that "Jewish culture" was the invention of
the Nazis and their predecssors and thus is an impossible thing to
discuss in relation to art objects. Brings up the idea that the wealthy
patrons of art in Vienna did not think of themselves as Jewish but
first and foremost as Austrians. Gombrich believes that "there is no way to define a Jew"
and that the Jews in Austria and Germany often realized the artificiality of the
"so-called Jewish identity" and converted to Christianity as a result.
"Treasure-House? Creative Laboratory? Hi-Tech cultural center? What will the art museum of the 21st century be?"
The Museum of African American History in Detroit,
the largest American museum of its kind,
"sketches a 400-year chronology" of African Americans,
from their African roots to the struggle for economic and civil equality.
The museum tries to take a "middle-brow" approach to education and
for that reason focuses not so much on the historical relationship
between whites and blacks but on the "suffering and victories of the African people."
This approach is similar to that adopted by the Holocaust
Museum in Washington and the MAAH worked with the same design
firm that conceptualized that museum.
Explains the problems facing the Detroit Institute of Art amid changes in governance.
The Pequot nation in Mashanatucket, CT is using profits from its casino to fund a museum of natural and cultural history. It is the largest museum run by Native Americans.
L"Brooklyn's Got Monet, but Also Karaoke, Poetry and Disco."
Located near the Nassau county courthouse, Michael Alfano's sculpture of a girlfriend killed by a drunk driver is removed after question arise regarding its impact on jurors.
The director of the Metropolitan Museum expresses
his viewpoint regarding the millineum's "call for the creation of a new museum."
He believes that museums need to be wary of becoming too much like malls too
focused on what they can DO rather than what they ARE.
The "science guy" explains why interactive science museums are important
because of their ability to educate people about new techonology.
This education will help people to become better informed "voters, taxpayers and neighbors."
He critcizes the use of too many words on museum signage and promotes the ideas of
learning through doing.
"Museums and artists in Europe and the US are flirting with centuries-old questions of aesthetic value."
Critical notice of Rockwell show at the Guggenheim in Nov., 2001.
"A German Museum Honors an Artist Lost to the Holocaust."
After years of bad management, London's Royal Academy is finally out of the red thanks to blockbuster shows such as Sensation and Monet in the 20th Century.
World-wide exhibition figures for 1998.
David Hockney and Tony Cragg were among the artists invited to a conference on 'Mortality immortality: the legacy of twentieth-century art' at the Getty Center.



