“This month the Louvre introduced a geo-locator application for multimedia devices that can instantly calculate a path through the museum from da Vinci’s Mona Lisa to Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa. The app is a key part of a 53.5 million euro, or $59 million, project to make the museum more user-friendly and accessible to its more than eight million annual visitors.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
There’s Another App That Has People Thronging To Museums: Pokémon Go
“It turns out that a huge number of Pokéstops, as described in the game’s release, are museums, historic buildings and markers, and even public artworks. … Pikachu seems to be drawn to the electricity of a Dan Flavin at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and Charmander’s been spotted hanging around the British Museum’s Parthenon Marbles galleries as well as Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts.” (Unfortunately, somebody put Pokéstops at the 9/11 Museum and Holocaust Museum.)
JACK Quartet Loses Two Of Its Founders
“Founded in 2007, JACK has become an important ensemble with a reputation for adventurousness and for championing new work. … The personnel change adds a new wrinkle to the quartet’s name. JACK is an acronym made up of the first letters of the first names of its original musicians.”
A Classical Response To #BlackLivesMatter
“After a series of Google searches along the lines of ‘classical music black lives matter,’ it became clear to [Eun Lee] that no such project existed. ‘It just hit me,’ Ms. Lee said, ‘that, as much as we were seeing a response from rap musicians and folk musicians and now more and more pop musicians, there was no such response from the classical music community.'”
Donor Sues Museum To Get Her Money Back
Dr. Helga Wall-Apelt, who donated millions for a gallery for Asian art at the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, is suing the museum for breach of contract. She claims the Ringling failed to build the gallery within a reasonable time, failed to display the Asian art she donated for the wing, and failed to hire a curator for the collection.
Gallerist Sues Ex-Colleagues For Selling Him Forged Monets And Picassos
“In lawsuits obtained by Page Six,” Alex Komolov, owner of the Alskom Gallery “claims David Segal and Mohamed Serry tricked him into buying $30 million worth of fraudulent Monet, Vlaminck, Picasso and Manet paintings, among other antiques, between 2007 and 2009.”
Freud Was Right About A Few Things, Says Neuroscience
“While Freud’s concept of the superego played a more ethical role, encouraging the id and ego to follow moral rules, [the] Id-Ego-Superego structure roughly matches onto the Unconscious-Conscious-Metacognition structure of the mind studied in neuroscience today.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.12.16
Responding to Pain
Communities are hurting. What is your arts organization doing in response? The answer to this question is a powerful indicator (forgive me: “metric”) of the depth and quality of institutional commitment to and capacity for engagement. … read more
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2016-07-12
Shiner Whiner: Warhol Museum’s Director Joins the Flight from Museum to Market
Should museum directors and curators parlay their nonprofit contacts into for-profit pursuits? … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-07-12
Other Places: Bill Crow on Dave McKenna
Bassist Bill Crow’s column “The Band Room” is an event New York musicians look forward to each month. … In the current issue, he remembers a pianist whose artistic scope, adaptability, swing and idiosyncratic personality made him a favorite of a wide variety of musicians and listeners. … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-07-12
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How To Figure Out When The Widsom Of Crowds Isn’t So Wise
“Metaknowledge functions as a powerful bullshit detector. It can separate crowd members who actually know something from those who are guessing wildly or just parroting what everyone else says.” It can also function, writes George Musser, as a “lie detector” and/or a “truth serum.”
The Behind-The-Scenes Stories Of Three Classic ‘Seinfeld’ Episodes
The table-reads for “The Chinese Restaurant” were disastrous. The writers fretted a lot about getting “The Contest” past the network censors (who, in the end, loved it). And the writer of the “Junior Mint” episode was convinced it would wreck his career.