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Blind visitor experiences at art museums
Blind Visitor Experiences at Art Museums seeks to answer two questions:
Given the guiding principle of visual art being understood only by sight, what do people understand when sight is diminished or not there?Moreover, given the experience of blindness, what are the effects of vision loss or no vision on a cultural identity in art?
It does this by exploring seven in-depth case studies of visitors to the education department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the experiences of leading groups by two teachers. In addition, this book includes findings from participant observations in classes and touch tours for blind and visually impaired people at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
After reading this book, readers will understand both passive and active social exclusion from the museum's facilities (active exclusion is defined as a deliberate act of exclusion based on the belief that blind people are incapable of understanding visual art, whereas passive exclusion is defined as exclusion resulting from an aspect of miseducation, such as inappropriate building design or learning materials, or a lack of training, knowledge, resources, access materials or buildings).
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The Incurable-Image
From the 1990s onwards the 'ethnographic turn in contemporary art' has generated intense dialogues between anthropologists, artists and curators. While ethnography has been both generously and problematically re-appropriated by the art world, curation has seldom caught the conceptual attention of anthropologists. Based on two years of participant-observation in Mexico City, Tarek Elhaik addresses this lacuna by examining the concept-work of curatorial platforms and media artists. Taking his cue from ongoing critiques of Mexicanist aesthetics, and what Roger Bartra calls 'the post-Mexican condition', Elhaik conceptualises curation less as an exhibition-oriented practice within a national culture, than as a figure of care and an image of thought animating a complex assemblage of inter-medial practices, from experimental cinema and installations to curatorial collaborations. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze and Paul Rabinow, the book introduces the concept of the 'Incurable-Image,' an antidote to our curatorial malaise and the ethical substance for a post-social anthropology of images.
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Art museums into the 21st century
Item consists mainly of interviews with architects of recent (1990s) museum buildings: Frank O. Gehry (Guggenheim Museum Bilbao), Jacques Herzog (Museum of Modern Art, New York and Tate Gallery of Modern Art), Richard Meier (Getty Center, Los Angeles), Rafael Moneo (Moderna and Arkitektur Museet, Stockholm), Jean Nouvel (Culture and Congress Centre Lucerne), Renzo Piano (Museum for the Fondation Beyeler, Basel) and Peter Zumthor (Kunsthaus Bregenz)
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Curating at the Edge
Located less than a mile from Juárez, the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for Visual Arts at the University of Texas at El Paso is a non-collecting institution that serves the Paso del Norte region. In Curating at the Edge, Kate Bonansinga brings to life her experiences as the Rubin’s founding director, giving voice to a curatorial approach that reaches far beyond the limited scope of “border art\" or Chicano art. Instead, Bonansinga captures the creative climate of 2004–2011, when contemporary art addressed broad notions of destruction and transformation, irony and subversion, gender and identity, and the impact of location on politics. The Rubin’s location in the Chihuahuan desert on the U.S./Mexican border is meaningful and intriguing to many artists, and, consequently, Curating at the Edge describes the multiple artistic perspectives conveyed in the place-based exhibitions Bonansinga oversaw. Exciting mid-career artists featured in this collection of case studies include Margarita Cabrera, Liz Cohen, Marcos Ramírez ERRE, and many others. Recalling her experiences in vivid, first-person scenes, Bonansinga reveals the processes a contemporary art curator undertakes and the challenges she faces by describing a few of the more than sixty exhibitions that she organized during her tenure at the Rubin. She also explores the artists’ working methods and the relationship between their work and their personal and professional histories (some are Mexican citizens, some are U.S. citizens of Mexican descent, and some have ancestral ties to Europe). Timely and illuminating, Curating at the Edge sheds light on the work of the interlocutors who connect artists and their audiences.
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Gathering of strangers : why museums matter
A powerful, timely and thought-provoking exploration of the transformative role of the museum - and of art - in society today.
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The curatorial in parallax
The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, Korea, releases the book What Museums Do: The Curatorial in Parallax edited by Kim Seong Eun and published on occasion of the symposium \"What Do Museums Research?\" James Voorhies contributes the essay titled \"I Call This Work Research,\" accompanying contributions by Paola Antonelli, Beck Jee-sook, James Elkins, Pascal Gielen, Kim Seong Eun, Annette Jael Lehmann, Lim Shan, Paul O'Neill, Dorothee Richter, Irit Rogoff, Margriet Schavemaker, Simon Sheikh, Beatrice von Bismarck, and Victoria Walsh
Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa
The early collections from Africa in Liverpool’s World Museum reflect the city’s longstanding shipping and commercial links with Africa’s Atlantic coast. A principal component of these collections is an assemblage of several thousand artefacts from western Africa that were transported to institutions in northwest England between 1894 and 1916 by the Liverpool steam ship engineer Arnold Ridyard. While Ridyard’s collecting efforts can be seen to have been shaped by the steamers’ dynamic capacity to connect widely separated people and places, his Methodist credentials were fundamental in determining the profile of his African networks, because they meant that he was not part of official colonial authority in West Africa. Kingdon’s study uncovers the identities of many of Ridyard’s numerous West African collaborators and discusses their interests and predicaments under the colonial dispensation. Against this background account, their agendas are examined with reference to surviving narratives that accompanied their donations and within the context of broader processes of trans-imperial exchange, through which they forged new identities and statuses for themselves and attempted to counter expressions of British cultural imperialism in the region. The study concludes with a discussion of the competing meanings assigned to the Ridyard assemblage by the Liverpool Museum and examines the ways in which its re-contextualization in museum contexts helped to efface signs of the energies and narratives behind its creation.
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