movingimagenyc asked: Hi there! We're Museum of the Moving Image and we have a Tumblr - it would be great if you could include us on your list. Thanks!
Of course!
studiomuseum asked: greetings museumnerd, when you get a moment can you add us to your MUSEUMS on Tumblr list? thank you for all your hard work!
Duh.
From the Museum of Childhood’s history page: http://www.museumofchildhood.org.uk/about-us/history-of-the-museum
Props to grupaok for always finding the coolest things.
Museum armature, Bethnal Green, 1856
P.S. Artist Joy Drury Cox has an excellent Tumblr. http://joydrurycox.tumblr.com/
hover whales!
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Good looking stuff on Corning Museum of Glass’s Tumblr…
This is Bill Jones, a master scientific glassware maker who has been working at GE Global Research in Niskayuna, N.Y., for 33 years. Jones and his team are responsible for creating bespoke glass labware for scientists conducting experiments and developing high-tech materials.
Here, Jones is heating a tube of almost pure quartz to its softening point of around 1,700 degrees Celsius using hydrogen- and oxygen-burning torches. He then shapes the material, which is spinning on a modified lathe, according to the needs of the experiment it will be used in.
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Gotta love it when museums share pics from their institutional archives. Especially shots in the museum galleries. Hopper is adorable.
Flora Whitney Miller, granddaughter of Museum founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, with Edward Hopper in front of his painting Early Sunday Morning in 1961. The work is currently displayed on its original easel in Hopper Drawing.
Frances Mulhall Achilles Library, Archives, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Photograph by Brooks Elder
I’ve got to figure out how to get to Houston and L.A. to see all three of these.
Our James Turrell exhibition has been open for nearly two weeks. Now the second of three Turrell shows opening around the country this summer is upon us—James Turrell: The Light Inside opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, this weekend. Check out the MFAH’s video on Turrell (with assistance from Art21).
(PS: the third Turrell exhibition opens later this month at the Guggenheim.)
Curate Award: Anyone’s Curatorial Project Can Be a Reality (If Their Idea Is Good Enough)
Curate Award, “a global search for curatorial talent,” co-presented by Fondazione Prada & Qatar Museums Authority, was announced this morning in Venice as thousands flood into the city for the 55th Venice Biennale. Curate is a broadly defined competition that’s open to the public to apply.
The award was announced by Jean-Paul Engelen, Head of Public Art, Qatar Museums Authority; Astrid Welter, Project Director, Fondazione Prada; Abdellah Karroum, newly appointed Director of Mathaf (Modern & Contemporary Art Museum in Doha); and Serpentine Gallery’s Hans Ulrich Obrist, who is one of the Curate judges. (L to R in the above photo)
Speaking about the evolution of who’s played the role of curator over the years, Obrist hoped that the Curate Award might push it further. “There are relatively few curating prizes which allow the project to become real,” he said.
For inspiration, Curate Award shared artist Bill Viola’s idea for “The World as a Living Organism” on their Facebook page:
A curator to send a selected group of artists, musicians, poets and dancers into outer space to orbit our planet so that they may see themselves and the entire world as one single living organism and share their experiences through their creations.
Looks like this one is wide open folks. I would’ve said the sky’s the limit, but if Bill Viola’s idea is any indication… Good luck curatin’!
Deadline December 31, 2013. More info and application details: http://curateaward.com
Another highlight of the show was this recreation of Walter De Maria’s “Art by Telephone.” There was a great selection of ephemera and archival materials from Getty Foundation at the Fondazione Prada. In that section, I found a letter to original curator Harald Szeeman from De Maria after the 1969 show said that De Maria had called seven times and no one picked up so there was no phone bill to be paid!](http://25.media.tumblr.com/814ffd3c65a2c8ba39b2a258ed82e90a/tumblr_mnifr9hOzF1qza8kdo1_500.jpg)
When Attitudes Become Form* [Bern 1969/Venice 2013](Post 3)
Another highlight of the show was this recreation of Walter De Maria’s “Art by Telephone.” There was a great selection of ephemera and archival materials from Getty Foundation at the Fondazione Prada. In that section, I found a letter to original curator Harald Szeeman from De Maria after the 1969 show said that De Maria had called seven times and no one picked up so there was no phone bill to be paid!
