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Museums all over the world have already taken a multi-disciplinary approach and have opened up to larger topics in its exhibitions. Rachel C. Barawid, Manila Bulletin, 27 April 2012
MANILA, PHILIPPINES – "While most museums around the world mount exhibitions on climate change to generate awareness and inspire action to protect the environment, some seem to have been doing it the wrong way. For instance, a museum in Norway uses scare tactics to educate people about climate change – complete with nuclear meltdown warnings and scary red lights to boot. Ameline Coulombier, consultant and head of Strategy Department of Lordculture, said she is bothered that this tact could make things worse. [text omitted] Lordculture is part of the international network Lord Cultural Resources which provides consulting services for the culture sector in France and other countries. It particularly assists in developing museum projects for organizations. Recently, it won a bid to develop the exhibitions of the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP). This has led them to create "Forward," a project that explains the policy and market failures around climate change exhibitions."
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The Life and Luxury, 1 May 2012
TORONTO, ON – "Toronto has grown up. The once gangly, uncertain metropolis, always shrinking and shrugging to unfair New York comparisons, has come into its own, firmly planting its feet in the 21st Century. The Luminato Festival may be the most illustrious sign of that growth and emergence. A testament to cross-disciplinary collaboration, encompassing all creative fields, the Luminato brings together artists and creative minds from around the world, and from all cultural backgrounds, while also showcasing Canadian art and creativity to the world."
Building a museum at Ground Zero: Steve Rosenbaum on the TED Blog 1 May 2012
NEW YORK CITY, NY - "TED Blog exclusive video: Steve Rosenbaum takes us on a private tour of the 9/11 Museum, under construction now at the site of the World Trade Center towers. Below, he talks about why he joined the effort to create a memorial of the people and events of September 11, 2001."
New media earns permanent 2,500-square-foot gallery at Newseum in Washington Brett Zongker (Associated Press), Recent News, artdaily.org, 30 April 2012
WASHINGTON, DC – "New media and the stories shaped by online culture and social networks now have a place in the Newseum, a Washington museum devoted to the history of news. On Friday, the Newseum opened its 2,500-square-foot HP New Media Gallery to show visitors that new media is all about participation. Visitors can post pictures or comments and build their own news home pages, choosing which news stories and photographs they think are most important."
Pompidou plans to go global: focus is Brazil, India, China President looks to extend the brand through a network of rotating galleries Gareth Harris. The Art Newspaper, Issue 235, May 2012, Published online: 30 April 2012
PARIS, FRANCE - "The Centre Pompidou is looking to expand abroad with a chain of galleries that will carry the flagship French institution’s brand. Alain Seban, the president of the Centre Pompidou, says that museums, universities and even shopping malls could host exhibitions of items drawn from the Paris-based institution’s 72,000-strong collection of modern and contemporary art. Seban plans to establish a network of sites, each measuring around 2,000 sq. m to 3,000 sq. m, for periods of between three and five years."
Murray Crawford, Meridian Booster, 29 April 2012
LLOYDMINSTER, AB/SK - "The look of the Barr Colony Heritage Cultural Centre is set to undergo a major overhaul, starting with the safe storage of their artifacts. Council has approved the construction of a storage facility, which will be 54 feet across, 100 feet long and 14 feet high to store artifacts while the BCHCC begins to change. [text omitted] Last year the BCHCC partnered with Lord Cultural Resources to create a redevelopment plan for the facility. At the time it was discussed if renovations or a new structure would be necessary, as several of the buildings currently in use have reached the end of their operational lives."
Museums
Museums need to shift their thinking on how collections are preserved Maurice Davies, Museums Association, 02.05.2012
UNITED KINGDOM- ""There’s no point in saving history for the future if it costs the earth." That’s my favourite response to the MA’s consultation on museums and sustainability. It encapsulates a paradox at the heart of museum thinking: the desirability of preserving collections balanced against the necessity of preserving the planet."
National Palace Museum expansion OK’d Grace Kuo, Taiwan Today, 1 May 2012
TAIPEI, TAIWAN - "The Council for Economic Planning and Development approved a project April 30 to expand the exhibition area of Taiwan’s National Palace Museum and build a cultural and creative park nearby."
Winnipeg Art Gallery's Stephen Borys making a difference Andrea Ratuski, CBC Manitoba, 1 May 2012
WINNIPEG, MB – "When Stephen Borys debates the importance of art in daily life on May 2, at Ottawa's National Gallery of Canada, he will be armed with a list of successes to back up his argument."
Le musée des Beaux-Arts de Beaune rouvre Connaissance des Arts, 30 Avril 2012
BEAUNE, FRANCE – "Une nouvelle scénographie, à la fois thématique et chronologique, mettra en avant les oeuvres récemment restaurées et les nouvelles acquisitions du musée."
La Catalogne à l’heure gothique Connaissance des Arts, 30 Avril 2012
BARCELONE, ESPAGNE – "Avec une nouvelle muséographie en 2010, un ouvrage sur les collections et l’acquisition en 2011 du Retable de saint Michel peint par Joan Mates au début du XVe siècle, le Museu nacional d’art de Catalunya a soigné son département d’art gothique."
Turkish Writer Opens Museum Based on Novel J. Michael Kennedy, The New York Times, Published: April 29, 2012
ISTANBUL, TURKEY - "The first thing you see are the cigarette butts. There are thousands of them — 4,213 to be exact — mounted behind plexiglass on the ground floor of the Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk’s new museum, named for and based on his 2008 novel, "The Museum of Innocence." "
La Société des Amis du Louvre et la Fondation des Amis du Prado collaborent Connaissance des Arts, 27 Avril 2012
MADRID, ESPAGNE – "Le président de la Société des Amis du Louvre et membre de l’Académie française, Marc Fumaroli, et le président de la Fondation des Amis du Prado, Carlos Zurita, ont signé un accord historique de collaboration."
Acordo entre Ibram e governo do ES pretende desenvolver área museal Ibram, 27/04/2012
BRASIL - "O quarto evento do projeto Conexões Ibram começou ontem (26), na capital do Espírito Santo (ES), Vitória, e segue até hoje (27). A assinatura de Acordo de Cooperação Técnica entre o Estado e o Governo Federal abriu o encontro no Palácio Anchieta. Eneida Braga, presidente substituta do Ibram/MinC, assinou o documento com José Paulo Viçosi, Secretário estadual de Cultura. O acordo tem como objetivo integrar recursos da área e estimular o desenvolvimento de ações conjuntas no setor museal no ES. "
Inscrições para Roteiro Cultural Rio+20 seguem até 4 de maio Ibram, 27/04/2012
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRASIL - "Museus e entidades culturais do estado do Rio de Janeiro interessados em participar do Roteiro Cultural Museus Rio+20, devem cadastrar suas atividades até o dia 4 de maio. Seminários, exposições, oficinas, espetáculos, mesas-redondas, visitas guiadas, exibições de filmes, entre outras atividades, podem integrar o roteiro cultural – que será impresso e distribuído pelo Ibram/MinC durante a Conferência das Nações Unidas sobre Desenvolvimento Sustentável (Rio+20), qu acontece entre os dias 13 e 22 de junho, na cidade do Rio de Janeiro (RJ)."
Ottawa mayor Jim Watson wants to see a national glory museum Susan Delacourt, Toronto Star, 27 April 2012
OTTAWA, ON – "Here is something you won't see in the Ottawa tourism brochures, but it's probably handy information if you're planning a trip to the capital — the area around Parliament Hill is a bit of a mess these days. [text omitted] This week, Ottawa mayor Jim Watson made a modest proposal to head off the descent into rubble, and suggested the installation of a "Canadian Smithsonian" in the midst of the desolate, construction-dust-laden landscape."
Knossos Archaeological Site To Become Open Museum Marianna Tsatsou, Greek Reporter, 27 April 2012
KNOSSOS, CRETE, GREECE - "Knossos is an archaeological site of the Bronze Age on the island of Crete. Minotaur, a mythical creature with the head of a bull and body of a man, was believed to protect the city of King Minos and to live inside a maze near Knossos. Greek officials decided to combine Knossos with every other archaeological site of the region, such as Dionysus and Ariadne Villa. They announced their intention to make Knossos an open museum, where visitors can walk around the entire town to visit its sites."
A State Looks at Itself in a New Mirror History Colorado Center Opens in Denver Edward Rothstein, The New York Times, 27 April 2012
DENVER, CO - "An East Coast visitor’s first reaction, provincially enough, has to be skepticism: does Colorado even have that much history? Enough history to justify a $110 million museum — the History Colorado Center — which is opening on Saturday, with plans for 40,000 square feet of exhibitions costing an additional $33 million, state-of-the-art technological displays, a research center and archival storage for over 15 million items, including more than 750,000 photographs and 200,000 artifacts?" [see also A New Work of Architecture for Denver’s Golden Triangle, by David Hill, Architectural Record, April 27, 2012]
Architecture
Rem Koolhaas' OMA to Design New Home for Moscow Art Space Canada Newswire, Architectural Record, 04/27/2012
MOSCOW, RUSSIA - "Today, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture unveiled plans for a new building in Gorky Park designed by Rem Koolhaas' OMA. Garage Gorky Park - due to be completed in 2013 - will be a renovation of the famous 1960s Vremena Goda (Seasons of the Year) restaurant, a prefabricated concrete pavilion which has been derelict for more than two decades. OMA's design for the 5,400m2 building includes exhibition galleries on two levels, a creative center for children, shop, cafe, auditorium and offices." [see also Rem Koolhaas' OMA to design new home for Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow, Recent News, artdaily.org, 30 April 2012; and Le Garage de Dasha Zhukova à Moscou rénové par OMA, Connaissance des Arts, 30 Avril 2012]
Connaissance des Arts, 3 Mai 2012
CHAMBORD, FRANCE – "Invité en résidence à Chambord, le photographe plasticien Georges Rousse a fait son nid dans les combles du château, habituellement fermés aux visiteurs."
A New Work of Architecture for Denver’s Golden Triangle The History Colorado Center, designed by native David Tryba, opens this Saturday David Hill, Architectural Record, 27 April 2012
DENVER, CO – "Denver's Golden Triangle neighborhood, just south of stately Civic Center Park, has become something of an architectural showcase, with an eclectic assortment of works by Gio Ponti (the 1971 Denver Art Museum), Michael Graves (a 1995 addition to the Denver Public Library), Daniel Libeskind (a 2006 art museum expansion), and Brad Cloepfil (the 2011 Clyfford Still Museum). The area’s newest architectural attraction is the History Colorado Center, which opens April 28."
Review: Generator Studio’s Sun Pavilion at the Nelson-Atkins Museum Fred A. Bernstein, Architectural Record, April 26, 2012
KANSAS CITY, MO - "The curators of Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs 1851-1939 spent years tracking down the 200 objects now on view at Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. But as the April opening approached, one key piece of the world’s fair story was missing—pavilion design. Though the objects would be housed in Steven Holl’s 2007 addition to the museum, curator Catherine Futter wanted to capture the feeling of world’s fair architecture with a temporary structure on the museum’s lawn. In January, the museum convened a jury—Holl himself was a member—and chose local firm Generator Studio from 15 that competed for the prize."
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