I spent the day at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History: The Kenneth E Behring Center (the last bit of the name after the colon is new and is ostensibly the name of their biggest donor, reinforcing that the public domain is certainly not beyond some ostentatious advertising—how can this be tolerated?) for the [...]
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A couple of months back I happened upon the American Museum of the Moving Image’s Moving Image Source, which is an online publication featuring articles about film, television, video games, actors, and more. The posts are written by critics and scholars from around the world, and the wde range of writers who all bring various [...]
Marking Digital History at UMW
Published by April 26th, 2008 in James Farmer, UMW Blogs, civil rights, google, insructional technology, maps, museums, open education and umw centennial. 4 CommentsJeff McClurken’s Adventure’s in Digital History seminar is (or is it “was” now?) a pretty amazing thing. The driving logic of the course was that four distinct projects, each dealing with a unique facet of local history, were be framed for the world-at-large as online digital resources. This is a quite ambitious goal, and [...]
Cronenberg on Warhol
Published by March 21st, 2008 in art, audio, film, films, images, movies and museums. 2 CommentsAnother gem from my Ubuweb video feed.
Just found this series of audio files that feature David Cronenberg curating an Andy Warhol exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto back in 2006. Here’s a nice quote from Cronenberg about Warhol’s influence on his own work:
Andy was making underground films when I was making [...]
Wal-Mart, Iraq, and an Inexcusable Silence
Published by October 10th, 2007 in art, museums and politics. 0 CommentsLee Rosenbaum’s article in today’s Wall Street Journal adds another layer to the post I wrote about Randolph College selling off its art collection (inspired by Rosenbaum’s original post here). According to the article, one of the major forces behind struggling institutions auctioning off prized artwork could have something to do with the current market [...]
You may have already heard that the Board of Trustees of Randolph College (a small, private women’s liberal arts college in Lynchburg, Virginia) made the controversial decision to sell off parts of its celebrated art collection to stay financially viable. The story has already been covered by the NYT, The Washington Post, and even [...]
Intermittent presents of endurance and hope on Flickr
Published by July 16th, 2007 in museums. 1 CommentOne of the things I love about my Flickr photostream are the intermittent gifts from my contacts. Fotoedge’s images regularly provide me with a beautifully textured and preserved Americana of the Mid-West. Whenever he uploads a new photo I am sure to spend some time thinking about the relationship between our state of mind [...]
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