from the New York Times
Synchronizing the Present and Past in a Timeless Place
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Another glimpse into the French world of heritage preservation at the Versailles Palace, previously posted here. The deliberate yet meticulous attention to technical details may seem out of place in an efficiency-driven world that is widely expected. However, it is also true that when something is worth doing, sometimes it is worth doing it slowly.
from BBC News
Original Alice work in 3D online
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Highlighting the Turning the Page project at the British Library, which currently has 14 historically significant books (in the British context, at least) that can be browsed virtually. An acceptable compromise between preservation and access, surely.
Original Alice work in 3D online
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Highlighting the Turning the Page project at the British Library, which currently has 14 historically significant books (in the British context, at least) that can be browsed virtually. An acceptable compromise between preservation and access, surely.
Singapore Updates
A couple of updates, if you have not already come across them:
The Changi Museum Revamped
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With the most recent renovation completed to coincided with the slew of programmes marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, the museum has added several new artefacts and storyboards.
Southeast Asian Archaeology
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An update of the site with additional pages of information in and around Singapore.
A couple of updates, if you have not already come across them:
The Changi Museum Revamped
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With the most recent renovation completed to coincided with the slew of programmes marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, the museum has added several new artefacts and storyboards.
Southeast Asian Archaeology
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An update of the site with additional pages of information in and around Singapore.
from GCI Newsletter
Conservation Science
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The latest newsletter from the Getty Conservation Institute features the development and role of conservation science in the larger professional framework of cultural heritage conservation and preservation.
Conservation Science
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The latest newsletter from the Getty Conservation Institute features the development and role of conservation science in the larger professional framework of cultural heritage conservation and preservation.
from Guardian Unlimited
Taking the Tate into the future
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An article highlighting the Tate's Director, Nicholas Serotas's vision and plans for the museum.
The vision include the idea that the museum in society should be "not a cathedral, but a meeting place, where you see and recognise other people in society; a place of debate and dialogue and exchange, not a place of worship".
To do that, he plans to "unseat" painting and sculpture from their traditional position as "king and queen" of art and to showcase visual art forms in its entirety of richness and complexities. "The big idea," he said, "is that the old hierarchies between painting and sculpture and other forms of expression have evaporated."
In addition, it is important to note that the focus of his vision goes beyond the forms of visual art. By saying that the museum is not a "cathedral" but a place where you "see and recognise other people in society", he meant to create a Tate that "does not appear monocultural" but reflects a "broader British society, in all its richness". It is his ambition to represent the full depth of contemporary life, such as club culture.
I especially like the way he coolly took into account the Tate's deficiencies as compared to other world class museums and devised the Tate's unique identity from there.
Taking the Tate into the future
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An article highlighting the Tate's Director, Nicholas Serotas's vision and plans for the museum.
The vision include the idea that the museum in society should be "not a cathedral, but a meeting place, where you see and recognise other people in society; a place of debate and dialogue and exchange, not a place of worship".
To do that, he plans to "unseat" painting and sculpture from their traditional position as "king and queen" of art and to showcase visual art forms in its entirety of richness and complexities. "The big idea," he said, "is that the old hierarchies between painting and sculpture and other forms of expression have evaporated."
In addition, it is important to note that the focus of his vision goes beyond the forms of visual art. By saying that the museum is not a "cathedral" but a place where you "see and recognise other people in society", he meant to create a Tate that "does not appear monocultural" but reflects a "broader British society, in all its richness". It is his ambition to represent the full depth of contemporary life, such as club culture.
I especially like the way he coolly took into account the Tate's deficiencies as compared to other world class museums and devised the Tate's unique identity from there.
from Tate Online
Media Matters
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Dealing with time-based media art in museums' permanent collections would necessarily involve the close collaboration of "curators, conservators, registrars and media technical managers". Adding to Tate's latest initiative, there are 2 papers and a conference currently archived on Tate's web-site that is of related interest.
Media Matters
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Dealing with time-based media art in museums' permanent collections would necessarily involve the close collaboration of "curators, conservators, registrars and media technical managers". Adding to Tate's latest initiative, there are 2 papers and a conference currently archived on Tate's web-site that is of related interest.
PIP LAURENSON
"Developing Strategies for the Conservation of Installations Incorporating Time-based Media: Gary Hill's Between Cinema and a Hard Place" (Tate Papers, Spring 2004)
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PIP LAURENSON
"The Management of Display Equipment in Time-based Media Installations" (Tate Papers, Spring 2005)
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Conference, 4 June 2005
"Curating, Immateriality, Systems: On Curating Digital Media"
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digital preservation
from Conservation, GCI Newsletter
Technical Art History
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The latest newsletter from the Getty Conservation Institute is featuring the emerging cross-disciplinary field of technical art history.
Technical Art History
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The latest newsletter from the Getty Conservation Institute is featuring the emerging cross-disciplinary field of technical art history.
from Art Museum Network News
Smithsonian Receives $10 Million for the Lunder Conservation Center
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An update on the development of a visible conservation centre (see previous post) at the Smithsonian. The new centre, named Lunder Conservation Centre, will be housed in the American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. It is projected that the renovation work currently underway at the museums and centre will be completed by July 2006.
Smithsonian Receives $10 Million for the Lunder Conservation Center
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An update on the development of a visible conservation centre (see previous post) at the Smithsonian. The new centre, named Lunder Conservation Centre, will be housed in the American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. It is projected that the renovation work currently underway at the museums and centre will be completed by July 2006.
from The Art Newspaper
Travel vandals: the Grand Tour has gone sour
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When the aim of sustaining cultural heritages is solely driven by commercial interests, inevitably, its becomes unsustainable. This is the dilemma facing listing (and also de-listing) cultural heritage monuments and sites from the World Heritage Sites list. Perhaps a more sensible approach, as one of the solutions proposed in the article, is to attend to the value and meaning of such experiences:
Travel vandals: the Grand Tour has gone sour
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When the aim of sustaining cultural heritages is solely driven by commercial interests, inevitably, its becomes unsustainable. This is the dilemma facing listing (and also de-listing) cultural heritage monuments and sites from the World Heritage Sites list. Perhaps a more sensible approach, as one of the solutions proposed in the article, is to attend to the value and meaning of such experiences:
"[T]ourists should get better educated about where they are going so that they respect it more and get more out of it. Slower, better informed travel, with the readiness to put something back in the way of direct contribution to improving and protecting the experience is the way to be a tourist."It could also be said that such a need for self-education and reciprocity extends to all cultural heritage "tourists", including visitors to museums and other cultural heritage institutions.
from The Telegraph
It knows where you are...
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An update on a previous post on a location-based multi-media device which has been specifically designed for enhancing the visitor experience of outdoor heritage sites. The combination of right design and accessible yet challenging content would be quintessential.
It knows where you are...
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An update on a previous post on a location-based multi-media device which has been specifically designed for enhancing the visitor experience of outdoor heritage sites. The combination of right design and accessible yet challenging content would be quintessential.
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