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Art:21′s blog today featured part 2 of a post by Hrag Vartanian about Prospect.1, a city-wide biennial in New Orleans. Read the first part here, the second part here, with more to come tomorrow. These...
View Article81 artists, 39 countries, 23+ locations, 11 weeks, 1 city.
This is how the cover of the Prospect 1 map describes the city-wide exhibition on view in New Orleans. Only three years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina hit the city, the biennial aims to...
View ArticleMuseums and the Web
I’m in Indianapolis, ensconced in my hotel, and ready for tomorrow’s sessions at the Museums and the Web conference. The program looks great, I can’t wait to meet the people behind so many of the...
View ArticleI Heart Indy
I’m back in St. Louis, and full of ideas from Museums and the Web. More to come on that soon. In the meantime, I’d like to talk about my love of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. I’ve written before...
View ArticlePhilly, the City of Brotherly Love
Greetings from a recent trip to Philadelphia, where I and several other PFA staff members attended the annual American Association of Museums Conference. It was a typical conference complete with...
View ArticleUrban Realities
The decline of the American City, particularly those for whom manufacturing was the primary economic driver, is long-standing topic of study and debate—a casualty of the most recent economic crisis or...
View ArticleUrban Dreams
Crew members from Earthworks Urban Farm in Detroit pose with their produce. So my personal Detroit visit included conversations with Matt Sikora, head of evaluation at the DIA, and Jennifer...
View ArticleArt and Medical Education—Thoughts from Detroit to Nashville
Realizing that I never finished my blog about Day 2 at the Harvard Art Museum’s Art and Medical Education conference, I thought I would add to those thoughts now. Coming off our visit to Detroit, where...
View ArticleDAM: Good Symposium
A couple of weeks ago, I attended a symposium titled, “Breaking the Rules of Engagement: New Perspectives on Thinking about Art,” at the Denver Art Museum, or DAM, as it is so lovingly called. The...
View ArticleA Love Letter from the Rust Belt
Regina Martinez and Emily Augsburger, from the Pulitzer’s Community Projects department, stand in front of The Heidelberg Project in Detroit, MI. Two weeks ago we traveled to Detroit to attend the...
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