Globalism - Crisis and opportunity

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The inaugural Symposium C6 will bring together an international group of socially engaged artists, scientists, curators, technologists, patrons and cultural entrepreneurs who are confronting the new challenges and possibilities of our profoundly interconnected world.

Go to Symposium C6 website

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The website of the 2006 Rembrandt-Caravaggio exhibition, a collaboration between Amsterdam powerhouse museums Van Gogh Museum and Rijksmuseum, has been awarded the prize for ‘Best On-line Exhibition’ at this year’s Museums and the Web conference. Museums and the Web is organized for the 11th year in a row. This year it takes place in San Francisco.

Other winners were Stagework, National Theatre, UK (Best Overall Museum Web Site), SFMOMA ArtCasts (Best Innovative or Experimental Application), Discover Nikkei, Japanese American National Museum (Best Research Site), Stagework, National Theatre, UK (Best Educational Use) and Collections Link, UK (Best Museum Professional’s Site).

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Rembrandt-Caravaggio website

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The Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center present an installation in P.S.1’s outdoor courtyard by Los Angeles-based firm Ball-Nogues, led by Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues, winner of the eighth annual MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program. The competition invites emerging architects to propose an installation for the courtyard of P.S.1 in Long Island City, Queens. The objective of the Young Architects Program is to identify and provide an outlet for emerging young talent in architecture, an ongoing mission of both MoMA and P.S.1. This year, five finalists selected by a closed nomination process were asked to present designs for an installation at P.S.1 with the allotted project budget of $70,000.

Read full article (P.S. 1)

Op het bouwterrein rond het Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam is met een Japanse ‘groundbreaking ceremony’ een begin gemaakt met de nieuwbouw van het museum.

Bestuursvoorzitter Toru Nagashima van het Japanse bedrijf Tejin Twaron, dat de kunststof voor de dakconstructie van de nieuwe vleugel van het museum sponsort, zette gisteren de eerste schop in de grond. Hij hoopt met dit Japanse ritueel de bouwgrond te behoeden voor ongelukken.

Lees hele artikel (NRC Handelsblad, 13 april, 2007)

The two Mets — the Metropolitan Museum and the Metropolitan Opera — are collaborating on a cross-marketing initiative, a first for the two institutions.

Read full article (New York Times, April 13, 2007)

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In art, space is a frontier, but there is nothing final about it. It is a complicated, layered place that artists continually explore, manipulate and expand, transforming our understanding of it and of art’s potential too. And the best place to experience recent activity on this frontier is the space walk that is west Chelsea.

Read full article (New York Times, April 13, 2007)

US museums are expanding their contemporary collections to include new media art, with acquisitions of film, video and mixed media installations on the rise in 2006 compared to 2005.

Read full article (The Artnewspaper, April 12, 2007)

A new museum near Cologne houses a collection of the most egregious examples of counterfeit goods

Read full article (Businessweek, March 30, 2007)

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Francois Pinault emerged as the sole candidate to turn a disused Venice customs building into a contemporary-arts center by June 2009 after a rival bid by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation was thrown out for being incomplete.

Read full article (Bloomberg April 5, 2007)

Today is the first day of the highly anticipated 2007 Museums and the Web conference. I will be reporting from San Francisco on the topics and themes of the conference, and giving inside views on the love affair between cultural heritage institutions and the Internet.

Personally I am looking very much forward to hearing the keynote speaker Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive tomorrow, who will talk about universal access to human knowledge through vast digital collections of cultural heritage. Art & culture are online and on demand. Then I will have to choose between either participating in ‘Enhanced Galleries’, ‘Web 2.0′ or ‘Users’. The following sessions are ‘User Contributed Content’, ‘Art Education’ and ‘Alternate Realities’. And the final ones are ‘Tagging & Terms’, ‘Redesign’ and ‘Open Architecture & Systems’.

Who can resist that?