Crowdsourcing Museums: Can Big Donors, Curatorial Decisions, and Individual Artists Be Replaced?
Various forms of crowdsourcing have been around forever, but no one really knew that they were doing it until 2006, when editors at Wired Magazine [...]
Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan at the Meadows Museum
Is it okay to look at stolen objects? Can advanced technology assuage the guilt of looking at stolen objects? How about the guilt of exhibiting [...]
Odessa Iron: first Smithsonian loan to Nöel Art Museum unveiled, Tobolowsky’s West Texas art blitz begins!
The Ellen Nöel Art Museum in Odessa, made a Smithsonian affiliate last year, is receiving its first shipment of art from the Washington D.C.-based national [...]
Smithsonian peacemaker
Lee Rosenbaum’s Culturegrrl blog reports that an unnamed conservative congressman went to bat for the Smithsonian’s right to show A Fire in My Belly by [...]
