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Arts Journal, The Daily Digest of Arts & Cultural Journalism. "Arts Journal is is a weekday digest of some of the best arts and cultural journalism in the English-speaking world. Each day Arts Journal combs through more than 200 English-language newspapers, magazines and publications featuring writing about arts and culture."
http://www.Artsjournal.com

Art Reviews - (New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/arts/index.html

Reporting the Arts - "The National Arts Journalism Program, Columbia University, was "America's sole academic center dedicated to the advancement of arts and cultural journalism . . . . The newly-reconstituted NAJP will be the largest association of working arts journalists in America and will take a leading role in supporting the field of arts journalism. With a core membership of 131 alumni, the reinvented NAJP will expand to welcome working arts journalists of all disciplines. . . . . Arts journalism as we have known it in the past 50 years will look very different five years from now, and NAJP should be part of the conversation about how the arts will be covered in America."
http://www.najp.org

Technically Assisted Art - (WIRED) - Transcribed

The Economics of Attention - Style and Substance in the Age of Information. "Art's center of gravity henceforth would lie not in objects that artists create but in the attention that the beholder brings to them. . . . " (Lanham) -- "The stuff you dig out of the earth's crust becomes, in an information economy, less important than the information that informs it, what you think about the stuff. Yet the more you ponder that information, the more you understand about that stuff, the more real the stuff becomes. To put it in terms of the art world Andy Warhol lived in, the more you see that style matters more than substance, the more you see the vital role, the vitality, of substance . . . " (University of Chicago Press 06/06)

Perspectives - Rehanging a Collection - "The most welcome change is that history has been rediscovered. Movements, groupings and progressions are rehabilitated. . . . " (TIMESonlne (UK) 05/23/06) - "The first major rehang of Tate Modern's collection formally opens today. The four suites of galleries housing the collection were until recently divided into unwieldy, catch-all themes - Landscape/Matter/Environment, Nude/Action/Body, Still Life/Real Life/Object, and History/Memory/Society. These have been replaced by Poetry and Dream, Material Gestures, Idea and Object, and States of Flux . . . . " (The Guardian (UK) 05/23/06)

Installing the Collection / Museum Collections & Temporary Exhibits. - (NYTimes, July 22, 2006)

Collective Conscious - "They come in various sizes and formats: couples, quartets, teams, tribes and amorphous cyberspace communities. Sometimes a group of artists assumes the identity of a single person; sometimes, a single artist assumes the identity of many. Membership may be official, or casual, or even accidental: friends brainstorming in an apartment or strangers collaborating on the Internet from continents away. And they may or may not refer to their activities as art. Research, archiving and creative hacking are just as likely to produce objects, experiences, information that is politically didactic or end-in-itself beautiful, or both. One way or another, joint production among parties of equal standing --we're not talking about master artist and studio assistants here --scrambles existing aesthetic formulas." (Holland Cotter, NYTimes 3/5/06)

'Virtual Venues Generate Real Dollars' - "Second Life is a 3D online digital world imagined, created, and owned by its residents . . . . Second Life has roughly 200,000 members who travel around more than 20,000 acres of virtual space, mostly consisting of small islands where users interact with other members or attend events. Another virtual world, Project Entropia, made headlines earlier this year when one resident paid $100,000 to develop a virtual space station. He now makes $12,000 per month renting virtual apartments and retail space and plans to open a nightclub as well . . . . These environments may be interoperable . . . . similar to bar hopping. Production costs run from $25,000 for a simple storefront to $3 million for an entire city." - ('Net nightclubs, virtual venues generate real dollars" By Antony Bruno. Reuters Monday, May 22, 2006; 1:17 PM - San Francisco (Billboard) - We are acultrated to family, friends, educational and cultural opportunities --and alternatives. The creativity of the entertainment industry could extend to cultural organizations to provide opportunity and experience in virtual worlds that correspond with our known and developing values. This may aid in 'interactive development' and in 'Fund-raising Events' . . . .
http://secondlife.com

The Rise of Crowdsourcing - "Technological advances in everything from product design software to digital video cameras are breaking down the cost barriers that once separated amateurs from professionals. Hobbyists, part-timers, and dabblers suddenly have a market for their efforts, as smart companies in industries as disparate as pharmaceuticals and television discover ways to tap the latent talent of the crowd. . . . . " - By Jeff Howe / WIRED Magazine - Issue 14.06 - June 2006
View with links: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.06/crowds.html

The invention of a 'curatorial me' - "Made possible by an explosion of cultural choice. A new work of fiction is published in the United States every 30 seconds. Most cable packages offer more than 100 television stations, and satellite provides hundreds of radio stations as well. Through online music services like Rhapsody or iTunes, we have access to millions of songs. We can read newspapers from around the world online while drinking our morning coffee; we can browse paintings and drawings from world-renowned museums without leaving our computer.

The combination of the rise of serious amateur art making, the explosion of choice, and the sophistication of Internet-savvy consumers will create new micromarkets, challenging the dominance of 20th-century mass markets.

Granted unprecedented access to the means of making art, today's youth want, in the words of Lynne Conner, who teaches theater arts at the University of Pittsburgh, to "co-author" meaning . . . . "they don't want the arts; they want the arts experience."

Inexpensive digital technology, Internet communication, and a new enthusiasm for hands-on art making hold out the promise of a rich, postconsumerist expressive life . . . . " ("Cultural Renaissance or Cultural Divide?" - Bill Ivey and Steven J. Tepper - Bill Ivey is director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Steven J. Tepper is associate director of the Curb Center and an assistant professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University. They are co-editors of Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation of America's Cultural Life, to be published next year by Routledge -- 'The Chronicle Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education' - May 19, 2006).

Marketing Trends - Outsourcing the Content as well as the Labor - "A museum store should be a specific, not a generic, experience . . . . The people -- often volunteers -- who work in museum stores tend to believe that by selling toys inspired by the contents of glass cases on which children were just pressing their noses, or by selling reproductions inspired by their museum's collections, they are branding the place in visitors' memories and hearts. They speak in terms of their 'mission' and 'educational mandate' . . . . . ."
http://www.noteaccess.com/APPROACHES/Marketing.htm

Patronage of artist's work at the community level. pdf file: Artists' Centers: Evolution and Impact on Careers, Neighborhoods and Economies - Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota, February 2006. A new study from the University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, "Artists' Centers: Evolution and Impact on Artists, Neighborhoods, and Economies," shows that Minnesota's strong creative economy owes much of its success to the unusual number and quality of dedicated gathering spaces for artists in Minnesota. The study profiles 22 arts centers and individual artists. (The importance of Patronage of artist's work)
http://www.hhh.umn.edu/img/assets/6158/artists_centers.pdf

Social Connection Trumps All - For Tiny Screens, Some Big Dreams - "Content is just a means to an end, so there's something to talk about," he said. In other words, social connection trumps all . . . . That resulting connection, that social interaction, can be much more lucrative than costly, classic content . . . companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to adapt their current brands in television, movies, games and news and information to the tiny screens of mobile phones, and creating new programming." - (Lorne Manly, NYTimes - May 21, 2006)

Conversation - An Evolving Art Form - (NYTimes)

Convergence - As Gadgets Get It Together, Media Makers Fall Behind. "AMID the cacophony of the sprawling Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month, the main action had little to do with electronics. Sure, booth after booth claimed to have the biggest TV screen, the smallest music player and the niftiest wireless gizmo. But that was to be expected. The real news was neither shiny nor tiny. The question in the air was what people will watch, listen to and do with these machines now that they are becoming interchangeable and interconnected . . . . " - (By Saul Hansell. NYTimes, January 25, 2006)

World Digital Library - "The Librarian of Congress James H. Billington presents his idea for a World Digital Library. " . . . "The time may be right for our country's delegation [to UNESCO] to consider introducing to the world body a proposal for the cooperative building of a World Digital Library. This would offer the promise of bringing people closer together by celebrating the depth and uniqueness of different cultures in a single global undertaking. . . . Through a World Digital Library, the rich store of the world's culture could be provided in a form more universally accessible than ever before. An American partnership in promoting such a project for UNESCO would show how we are helping other people recover distinctive elements of their cultures through a shared enterprise that may also help them discover more about the experience of our own and other free cultures." - ( A Library for The New World. Washington Post, 11/22/2005)
http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2005/05-250.html

Software to Look for Experts Among Your Friends - Supporting Interpersonal Exchange and Collaboration - "An online service that will make it simple to pick the brains of friends and colleagues for opinions and expertise. . . . . The service allows the user to mine the data on the computers of friends, business associates and others with shared interests on any subjects. . . . . Each Illumio local system would independently determine who had the best relationship in the network based on parameters . . . . Efforts to create systems that augment the intellectual power of work groups go back to the earliest days of computing technology development. . . . . Web masters can obtain 'hot spot' icons to place on their sites to develop an illumino network . . . . Tacit plans to start testing the service, called 'Illumio' next month." - (JOHN MARKOFF, Published: May 29, 2006 at NYTimes)

Acid-Free Bits - Recommendations for long-lasting electronic literature.
http://www.eliterature.org/pad/afb.html

'Camera Phone Enters New Creative Territory' - By REUTERS, Published: September 25, 2005. Filed at 5:23 a.m. ET - "Billboard has learned that rock band the 'Presidents of the United States of America' shot its latest video using only mobile phone cameras. The video for the track "Some Postman," culled from the band's last studio album, "Love Everybody," was filmed in Seattle in just one day using a variety of Sony-Ericsson mobile video phones. Director Grant Marshall of Film Headquarters said he had spent 18 months looking for a band willing to go along with the mobile-only film concept. The band currently is playing limited U.S. dates and is planning an Australian tour in October." (Reuters/Billboard - In NYTimes online)

A Healthy Dose of Inspiration - "The Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital is leading the way in demonstrating that art can be almost as useful as shorter waiting lists when it comes to curing sick patients. . . . From the multi-coloured child-friendly play poles at the entrance to the sculpted tree courtyard garden to the pod-like furniture and humorous text graphics running throughout the interior, the hospital is typical of the exciting projects led by Edinburgh-based arts agency Pace - Public Art Commissions and Exhibitions. . . . . Pace began commissioning hospital artists more than three years ago, but the £600,000 part-Lottery funded project was at an immediate advantage given the positive attitude of Grampian Hospital Art Trust. . . . . This mutual understanding between the trust, Pace and the hospital's architects meant that everyone agreed on the imperative role art was to play in the new building. "Art is fundamental," says the 38-year-old. "It is not an extravagant add-on to the whole environment. People respond and get better in a positive environment . . . . "
http://www.noteaccess.com/APPROACHES/Environment.htm

Pigments Through the Ages - a public service of the Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement (IDEA). . . . "Primary sources include the multivolume series from the National Gallery of Art, "Artists' Pigments : A Handbook of Their History and Characteristics."
http://webexhibits.org/pigments

Turning the Pages - 'Leonardo's Notebook', 'Lindisfarne Gospels', 'Luttrell Psalter', 'Sforza Hours', 'Vesalius Anatomy', 'Golden Haggadah,' 'Blackwell's Herbal', 'Diamond Sutra','Sherborne Missal', 'Sultan Baybars' Qur'An' - "Discover the British Library's award-winning system Turning the Pages. Just click on the links, wait a few moments, then turn the pages of our great books."
http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/digitisation1.html

MIT OpenCourseWare - "We're really trying to buck the trend of commercialization of knowledge and start the trend of sharing knowledge around the world."
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

'The Business of Art' - March 18 - June 13, 2004. "The behind-the-scenes players that move the market for art and influence the value of an object are the focus of the new exhibition . . . . featuring documents and other materials that trace business activity in the art market over the last 400 years . . . . "To fully understand art, you also have to understand the value people place on various works and why," says Thomas Crow, director of the Getty Research Institute. "The creation of art is a multilayered process and it is important to see all sides --the creative process alongside patterns of reception and dissemination. . . . " (AMNNews)
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/business

Culture Shock - "Are the Arts Dangerous? They inspire, but may provoke. They thrill, but sometimes offend. And often the same artwork attracts both acclaim and condemnation. This site provides context that promotes understanding of the history of the arts and controversy." [PBS]
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock

Words and Pictures Are Combined to Form a New Industry - " (2001) . . . . A hybrid industry is being born, fed by the widespread use of color in documents, the ease with which people can download image-laden documents from the Web, and the rising use of scanners, digital cameras and software that let people route photographs to printers and copiers. "What is it that you print from the Internet „ a text document with pictures, or a picture surrounded by text?" asked Edward Y. Lee, a photography analyst at Lyra Research. "That division just isn't cut and dried anymore. Thanks to digital technologies, the lines are rapidly blurring between industries that deal in words and those that deal in images. Digital cameras are usurping a growing part of the market for film, and e-mail and other technologies are cutting into the markets for text on paper. "All the companies have to position themselves in the transmission and communication end of the business," Jonathan Rosenzweig, an analyst with Salomon Smith Barney, said. . . . . " [NYTimes, April 17, 2001]
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/17/technology/17PHOT.html

Cultural Policy & the Arts National data Archive [cpanda] - "An interactive digital archive of data on the arts and cultural policy in the U.S., available for research and statistical analysis, with data on artists, arts and cultural organizations, audiences, and funding for arts and culture."
http://www.cpanda.org

The National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program [Library of Congress] - "What does it mean to have a national strategy for digital collections . . . . ?"
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april02/friedlander/04friedlander.html

arts@large - NYTimes (1998-2000) - Matthew Mirapaul reported on the intersection of technology and the arts, including Web-based art exhibits, intereactive music, hypertext fiction and other expressions of digital creativity . . . . ."
http://www.NYTimes.com/library/tech/reference/indexartsatlarge.html

What is a print? [International Fine Print Dealers Association] [© 1995-2000 All rights reserved. artline¬]
http://www.printdealers.com/learn.cfm

Conservators Struggle When Modern Art Shows Its Age [NYTimes, April 5, 2001]
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/05/arts/05REST.html

Standards on Web Images [NYTimes]
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/04/cyber/articles/15graphics.html

Creating 'the Last Book' to Hold All the Others
http://www.nytimes.com/library/arts/040898book.html

Is your monitor calibrated? - Stan's 30 Second Monitor Check Up:
http://www.stanstudio.com/calib.html

Mediachanel - Media Arts [Perspectives, News and Reviews, and File Room - "MediaChannel.org is the first Web portal dedicated to international media issues, and the premiere Internet source for analysis and information about the media. Driven by content from a network of more than 410 international media organizations and contributors, MediaChannel explores areas such as freedom of expression, citizen access to media, trends in media ownership, media arts and the intersection of media and politics."
http://www.mediachannel.org