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Admissions & Museums: A Balancing Act Alexandra Butler, MUSE (CMA), Vol. XXX/3, Issue 5-6, May/June 2012, p34-45
CANADA - "Canada’s cultural institutions outline in their mandates the importance of engaging and educating the public in their area of expertise, be it history, culture or natural science. But, fulfilling these mandates comes with a price tag. [text omitted] Ted Silberberg, senior principal for market and financial planning at Lord Cultural Resources, the world’s largest museum planning firm, has recently co-authored a textbook chapter on how museums balance mission and revenue.
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The Walters Art Museum donates more than 19,000 freely-licensed images to Wikimedia Recent News, artdaily.org, 9 May 2012
BALTIMORE, MD – "The Walters Art Museum has donated more than 19,000 images of artworks, along with associated information to Wikimedia. Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely licensed educational content for unrestricted use."
Hoping for a Nexus of Creativity in New Orleans Robert Cicetti, Hyperallergic, 9 May 2012
NEW ORLEANS, LA - "The New Orleans Museum of Art hosted a luncheon today for members of arts community that amounted to something much more than the usual meet and greet. Instead of delivering a regurgitated press release, the dialogue that unfolded about New Orleans and the transformative power of art meandered, taking anecdotal twists and turns, that you’d expect to have on a front porch, not in a conference room. This was due in large part to the participation of NOMA’s artist ambassadors — Swoon, Terence Blanchard, Mel Chin and Katie Holten. Their inclusion seemed true to NOMA’s mission to be more than just a fine arts institution, but to serve as the cultural locus of New Orleans."
At Garden’s Visitor Center, a Welcome Transparency Philip Nobel, The New York Times, Published: May 8, 2012
BROOKLYN, NY - "In its 102 years, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden has amassed quite a collection. There’s the rose garden, with its 1,000 varieties; the Shakespeare garden, with 80 plants mentioned in his works; and the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden, the oldest in any American public setting, with its pines and quince and great schools of overstuffed koi skimming the water’s surface. And of course there are the flowering cherry trees, more than 200 of them in long promenades, Brooklyn’s answer to the annual spectacle in Washington. The cherry blossoms can bring as many as 37,000 visitors to the garden on a weekend day in early spring."
SFMOMA is first museum to release year-in-review annual report as iPad app Recent News, artdaily.org, 8 May 2012
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – "Using forward-looking technology to look back on a phenomenal year, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presents Story of a Year, a newly designed iPad app that documents and celebrates the 2011 fiscal year at the museum. SFMOMA has long been known for its innovative uses of interactive media, and now it becomes the first museum to offer its annual report in the form of an app."
Le projet Lascaux 4 se précise Cinq équipes ont été retenues pour élaborer le projet de centre d'art pariétal. Sud Ouest, 5 Mai 2012
LASCAUX, FRANCE – "Lascaux est un nom connu sur toute la planète, à travers ses peintures qui illustrent les débuts de l'humanité dans les livres d'histoire des écoliers. Les candidatures des architectes pour le concours du projet de centre international d'art pariétal de Montignac, alias Lascaux 4 le confirme. 90 équipes ont répondu du monde entier (dont 88 dans les délais)."
Museums
L’Ashmolean Museum reçoit 5,9 millions de livres sterling pour l’acquisition d’une œuvre de Manet Journal des Arts, 10Mai 2012
OXFORD, ROYAUME-UNI – "Depuis février 2012, l’Ashmolean Museum réalise une campagne d’appel aux dons pour pouvoir acquérir le « Portrait de Fanny Claus » d’Edouard Manet. Le musée britannique vient de recevoir un don de 5,9 millions de livres sterling, lui laissant entrapercevoir l’espoir de voir l’œuvre dans ses collections."
MAXXI crise au musée national d'art contemporain de Rome Libération Next, 10 Mai 2012
ROME, ITALIE – "Le musée national des arts du XXIe siècle de Rome, plus connu sous son acronyme MAXXI, dont le budget a été réduit à une peau de chagrin, a été placé sous tutelle par le ministère de la Culture, ont indiqué jeudi les médias italiens. L’architecte Antonia Pasqua Recchia, secrétaire générale du ministère, a été nommée administratrice extraordinaire du musée, qui avait été inauguré en grande pompe il y seulement deux ans."
Museum kits teach aboriginal heritage Creators hope materials will keep kids in school Carol Sanders, Winnipeg Free Press, 9 May 2012
MANITOBA, CANADA - "Aboriginal youth are the fastest-growing demographic in Manitoba, but half of the kids on First Nation communities drop out of school. Later this month, tool kits to help kids from reserves learn hands-on about their heritage so they'll want to be in class are being delivered to several northern schools."
Asia's superrich build their own art museums Kelvin Chan (AP), Bloomberg Businessweek, 9 May 2012
CHINA - "Over the past two years Wang Wei and her husband Liu Yiqian dropped a reported $317 million on their hobby. Now they need somewhere to display the collection they've amassed. The solution: a private art museum that Wang hopes will impart some class to China's flashy nouveau riche."
Kate Deimling, BLOUIN ARTINFO, Published: May 8, 2012
FRANCE / AFRICA - "The idea is extraordinary, but it's also quite simple: instead of bringing schoolchildren to the museum, bring the museum to them. The Musée Mobile, also known as MuMo, is a contemporary art museum inside a shipping container that has traveled through France, Cameroon, and Côte d'Ivoire."
Le Musée Grévin choisit ses grands Québécois Agnès Gaudet, Le Journal de Montréal, 6 mai 2012
MONTREAL, QC – "Le Musée Grévin de Montréal ouvrira ses portes au mois de mars 2013, une première mondiale pour la célèbre institution française, qui reçoit chaque année 800 000 visiteurs à Paris. À Montréal, le musée occupera trois étages supérieurs de l’édifice qui abritait le magasin Eaton du centre-ville, sur une superficie de 45 000 pi2."
Museum makes a million: Museum of Liverpool welcomes one million visitors Recent News, artdaily.org, 5 May 2012
LIVERPOOL, UK – "The Museum of Liverpool has welcomed one million visitors through its doors since opening in July 2011, just nine months ago. The largest newly built national museum in Britain for more than a century was forecast to attract 750,000 people in its first year, but in nine months it has already well exceeded that target."
Thumbs-up for proposed Rajang Area Security Command Museum Borneo Post, 5 May 2012
SIBU, MALAYSIA - "Tourism players here gave the thumbs-up to the proposed setting up of the Rajang Area Security Command (Rascom) museum, seeing it as a potential income earner to boost the sluggish local tourism industry."
Le Musée Fesch d'Ajaccio retrouve quatre tableaux volés en 2011 Le Monde, 5 Mai 2012
AJACCIO, CORSE – "Trois tableaux italiens de grande valeur et un Poussin, volés en février 2011 au Palais Fesch-Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Ajaccio, ont été retrouvés intacts."
Le projet du musée Guggenheim d'Helsinki abandonné Connaissance des Arts, 4 Mai 2012
HELSINKI, FINLANDE – "Le 2 mai, un vote du conseil municipal d’Helsinki a fait échouer de peu, par 8 voix contre 7, le projet de construction d’un musée Guggenheim dans la capitale finlandaise."
Rwanda’s Rwesero Museum begins hosting foreign artists Frank Whalley, The East African, 4 May 2012
NYANZA, RWANDA - "Exciting times lie ahead for the visual arts in Rwanda. A series of exhibitions is planned to widen the scope of the national gallery at the Rwesero Arts Museum in Nyanza. There, a new policy of guest exhibitions by Rwandan and foreign artists has been implemented by Lia Gieling, a Dutch woman who is just one year into her job as arts curator at the museum, part of the Institute of National Museums of Rwanda."
Radio-Canada, 4 mai 2012
QUEBEC, CANADA – "Toujours en campagne de financement pour attirer de grands mécènes pour son projet d'agrandissement, le Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec a annoncé jeudi une contribution de 500 000 $ de la Banque Nationale. Cette dernière participe ainsi au financement du nouveau pavillon Lassonde, sur la Grande Allée. La Fondation du MNBAQ poursuit sa campagne de financement pour le projet de 90 millions de dollars."
Greek museum hooks up with Chinese institution ekathimerini.com, 4 May 2012
GREECE / CHINA - "Two literary masters are coming together through their legacies. Following an initiative by the International Society of Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis -- Greece’s most popular writer globally speaking -- the Nikos Kazantzakis Museum in Iraklio, Crete, will establish formal links with China’s Lu Xun Museum, which is dedicated to "the father of modern Chinese literature." The official ceremony is scheduled to take place at the Lu Xun Museum in Shaoxing, in Zhejiang Province, on the outskirts of Shanghai."
David Koch donates $35 million to National Museum of Natural History for dinosaur hall Jacqueline Trescott, The Washington Post, 3 May 2012
WASHINGTON, DC - "David H. Koch, the executive vice president of Koch Industries and a prominent supporter of conservative causes, has donated $35 million to the National Museum of Natural History. The gift, which was announced by the Smithsonian Institution on Thursday, will go to a new dinosaur hall, which has been high on the list of needed renovations at the museum." [see also Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History to build new dinosaur hall, Recent News, artdaily.org, 4 May 2012]
Architecture
Serpentine Gallery reveals plans for Pavilion designed by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei Recent News, artdaily.org, 9 May 2012
LONDON, UK – "The Serpentine Gallery today released plans for the 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion designed by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei. It will be the twelfth commission in the Gallery’s annual series, the world’s first and most ambitious architectural programme of its kind."
La Comédie Française se refait une jeunesse Connaissance des Arts, 9 Mai 2012
PARIS, FRANCE – "La Comédie Française lance une restauration acoustique et esthétique de sa Salle Richelieu."
On the Boards: OMA’s Marina Abramović Institute The firm unveils its design for a performance art training camp in upstate New York. William Hanley, Architectural Record, 8 May 2012
HUDSON, NY - "Marina Abramović goaded a man to insert his head into the base of an architectural model at an event to unveil the design for the artist’s new institute for performance art. After some hesitation, he obliged, and a group of photographers gathered to snap photos of the illuminated mock-up now capping his suddenly prone body. The teaching moment was a fitting introduction to the Marina Abramović Institute for the Preservation of Performance Art." [see also Performance artist Marina Abramovic unveils plan for $15 million New York art center, Ula Ilnuytzky (Associated Press), Recent News, artdaily.org, 8 May 2012; Marina Abramovic annonce l'ouverture d'un centre dédié à l'art de la performance, Thomas Bizien, Le Journal des Arts, 09.05.2012]
Plant-Covered Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw Blends in With the Surrounding Park Lori Zimmer, inhabitat, 05/08/2012
WARSAW, POLAND - "The various representations of nature converge in Camilo Rebelo’s vision for the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. The green structure rises in geometric points in an open plaza, with a ground that emulates the angles and lines of the architecture. The exterior of Rebelo’s structure is completely carpeted with vegetation, creating an ultra-modern structure that is reminiscent of crystalline formations."
Public art library opens: El Paso Museum of Art hosts research, reference books David Burge (El Paso Times), Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2012
EL PASO, TX - "A tucked-away collection of art books is now a full-fledged research and reference library that is open to the public. Sunday, the El Paso Museum of Art and its partner, the El Paso Public Library system, officially dedicated what city officials are calling the first public library in the country devoted to the visual arts."
Farshid Moussavi's Cleveland Museum to Open in October Construction is progressing on the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, the London architect’s first United States project. Clifford A. Pearson, Architectural Record, 7 May 2012
CLEVELAND, OH - "Farshid Moussavi's new home for the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA) is nearing completion in the city's emerging Uptown district. The 34,000-square-foot, four-story building anchors a key intersection in an area that's part of University Circle, a cultural hub with institutions such as the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and Case Western Reserve University.
World Architecture News, 4 May 2012
NURNBERG, GERMANY - "One of Europe’s largest exhibition sites has released designs for a new 8,000 sq m hall conceptualised by acclaimed architect Zaha Hadid. The cavernous volume is more restrained than the majority of Hadid’s portfolio projects with a softly curving roof and large panes of glass through which natural daylight will shine, illuminating the space and reducing the facility’s energy dependencies."
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