The Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt: Finally, the Museum of the Future Is Here. Some things belong in a museum.
But at the Smithsonian's recently reopened museum of design, a team has been rethinking what a thing is in the first place. Tessellated smiley faces in the Cooper Hewitt’s “immersion room,” which projects decorative patterns on the wall and lets users design their own (Robinson Meyer/The Atlantic) Very soon, every visitor to the Cooper Hewitt, the Smithsonian’s recently reopened design museum, will receive a giant pen. This pen is not really a pen. On the table, it looks like a gray plastic crayon the size of a turkey baster. Next to every object on-display at the Cooper Hewitt is a small pattern that looks like the origin point of the coordinate plane. To people who photograph placards when they visit museums—a group to which I belong—the pen is a godsend.
Last month, the Cooper Hewitt welcomed visitors again after a three-year-long closed-door renovation. Or, more precisely, A Thing That Puts Things on the Internet.
Plan culturel numérique. Museums & libraries buket list. Museogeeks. RSN Musées. Open content. Dispositifs interactifs. Mobile + Musées. Musée participatif. Outils. Refontes - Sites de musées. The Met’s new yearlong web series explores art in 100 two-minute videos. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has launched a year-long web series, 82nd & Fifth, that lets the museum’s curators talk about “100 works of art that changed the way they see the world.”
There will be 100 episodes, each two minutes long and posted two at a time on Wednesdays through December 25, 2013. (The title of the series refers to the Met’s address in NYC.) The initiative is somewhat similar to the BBC’s “A History of the World in 100 Objects,” a very popular 2010 project that explored 100 objects in the British Museum in 15-minute episodes.
Publics. Alone in the Virtual Museum. One afternoon last June, while travelling in Naples, I went out wandering and found myself standing in the kind of vast cobblestone square that seems designed for a Fascist rally or the celebration of a royal birth.
To my right stood a building that looked like a steroidal homage to the Pantheon; to my left, a long, squat loaf of a mansion that turned out to be the Palazzo Reale, the urban seat of the Bourbon monarchs during their rule, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I bought a ticket, and found myself in an entrance hall of white, pink, and black marble, dominated by two cascading staircases leading away from one another and toward the vaulted, absinthe-colored ceiling far above. Each could have easily fit four horsemen riding side by side; you could almost hear the hiss made by silk dresses sweeping down the steps and the laughter of the women wearing them.
Apart from a half dozen guards playing cards at a small folding table, I was alone. La numérisation des oeuvres d'art. Premières images du nouveau Musée d’art contemporain. Comment les musées sont devenus de "nouvelles cathédrales" Visiter un musée (ou un monument) est de loin l'activité culturelle par excellence, d'après les Français récemment interrogés par le Crédoc et le ministère de la Culture.
Et l'on se bousculera encore ce samedi lors de la Nuit européenne des musées. Une occasion rêvée de découvrir la variété de plus de 1 200 "musées de France" et comment ils ont pu se transformer. Data&Musée - Une data science pour les institutions culturelles. Lancé le 27 septembre 2017, Data&Musée est un projet collaboratif mené par la société Orpheo, auquel participent notamment les écoles Télécom SudParis et Télécom ParisTech.
Il a pour but de réunir sur une plateforme unique et ouverte les données des institutions culturelles, afin de développer des outils d’analyses et de prédiction pour les guider dans l’élaboration de stratégies et le développement de leurs activités. La science des données, ou data science, est une discipline scientifique récente permettant d’extraire des informations, des analyses ou des prévisions d’une grande quantité de données. Elle est d’ores et déjà largement exploitée dans de très nombreux domaines industriels, notamment dans l’énergie et les transports, mais également dans le secteur de la santé.
Cependant, cette discipline ne s’est pas encore inscrite dans les pratiques des institutions culturelles françaises. Photographer Spends Eternity Waiting For Museum Visitors To Match Artworks And The Result Is Worth The Wait. Most of us were bored at some museum at least once in our lives - except this guy! France-based photographer Stefan Draschan always keeps himself entertained at art galleries by creating his own art projects. Show Full Text One of those projects is “People matching artworks”. Although at first Draschan’s images seem perfectly staged, the secret behind them is actually patience. The photographer enjoys visiting different museums mostly in Paris, Vienna and Berlin where he waits for visitors to suddenly match with a piece of art in a funny way.
Scroll down to see this ongoing project for yourself and beware – Stefan Draschan might be somewhere out there “hunting” for you! More info: stefandraschan.com.