Interesting Happenings:
I’ve stumbled upon some interesting online initiatives going on in the Museum and Gallery world, so I thought I’d throw a post together to highlight some of them:
The Smithsonian Archives of American Art has a twitter account! The account mostly highlights works that are in their digital archives. Some recent gems are a letter to a Smithsonian curator from Roy Lichtenstein, and a list of recommendations from Picasso to curator Walt Kuhn.
The Brooklyn Museum Blog recently published a post about their project to update Wikipedia articles with information about Artists in their Seductive Subversion show. Wikipedia has become such a go to website that it’s really encouraging to see a respected museum dedicating their staff time to updating the resource - the more information that is on Wikipedia, the better equipped it is to interest people in the art. To see all of the articles they’ve updated or started, visit
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/seductive_subversion/wiki/
Kate at the Museum of Science and Innovation
The Museum of Science and Innovation in Chicago has started a new marketing campaign called “Month at the Museum”, where they’ve hired Kate to live full time in their museum for a month. Kate updates a blog, twitter and videoblog regularly with her experiences in the museum and it looks like a lot of fun.
