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  • VR at the Tate Modern's Modigliani exhibition is no gimmick

    November 28, 2017 |

    Endgadget |

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    Response Location: England, London

    Tate Modern’s 2017 exhibition on painter Amedeo Modigliani included a virtual reality recreation of Modigliani’s final studio in Paris. Seated on wooden chairs with VR headsets on, visitors can explore the studio and hear firsthand accounts of the space from Modigliani’s friends.

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  • An Abandoned Roman Salami Factory Becomes an Illegal, Inhabited Museum

    October 24, 2017 |

    Atlas Obscura |

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    Response Location: Italy, Rome

    About 200 people from around the world, most of whom were homeless, occupied a former meat factory where they cleaned the space and set up homes. An Italian artist worked with residents to create a unique venue that exhibits murals, paintings, and installations of over 300 artists from around the world. The museum does not have a budget, the artists donate their works, and it operates on a democratic concept where artists from different backgrounds and styles work together. Despite not occupying the space legally, residents believe that the value the art offers to society prevented them from being evicted.

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  • Museums Around the World Will Now Text Artworks Directly to Your Phone, Thanks to SFMOMA

    October 19, 2017 |

    Artnet |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    The Send Me SFMOMA program allows people to text a number with a request based on a variable such as a object, mood, or color and receive back an image of an appropriate work in the SFMOMA collection. Through this service, which SFMOMA has made open source for other museums to use, the museum is able to connect with the public and ‘display’ a much higher percentage of its holdings.

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  • New app Smartify hailed as "Shazam for the art world"

    October 08, 2017 |

    Dezeen |

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    Response Location: England, London

    The Smartify app allows people to scan a piece of art—from a painting in a gallery to a postcard in a store—and have the app identify the work and provide additional information.

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  • Art Handlers, Long Overlooked, Push for Better Wages and Union Representation

    September 25, 2017 |

    Artsy |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Developed out of an Arts & Labor working group during Occupy Wall Street, the Art Handlers Alliance (AHA) advocates for fair compensation and improved hiring practices for art handlers. Using a “bill of rights” as a template, the AHA has been part of negotiations between employers and unions that represent some art handlers—such as the Teamsters—and obtained for workers increased compensation and benefits.

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  • This National Gallery of Art program helps people with memory loss ‘connect with who they were'

    May 04, 2017 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    The National Gallery of Art’s “Just Us” program brings seniors with memory loss symptoms to the museum for ‘meditation’ on paintings. Using the paintings as prompts, visitors are encouraged to react to and interpret what is before them mentally engaging them and providing an opportunity for socialization.

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  • How do you solve half a century of bloodshed in Colombia?

    April 27, 2017 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Colombia

    Local civil society groups are at the forefront of rebuilding Colombia. With decades of armed conflict officially ended, efforts to support a lasting peace focus on inequality and land issues and work to advance sustainable rural development.

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  • Should Artists Unionize?

    April 13, 2017 |

    Artsy |

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    Response Location: Poland, Warsaw

    In Poland, artists have used a traditional tool to advocate for and obtain fair compensation: unionizing. While the artists’ union is not officially recognized by the state, it has successfully obtained better pay for artists from galleries and grant funders and led a 2012 strike.

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  • How an ambitious arts program gives a tiny city an outsized identity

    September 09, 2016 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Eastport, Maine

    Creating spaces for art and artists to thrive can have a positive impact on a city’s economy. By converting disused buildings into studio spaces and galleries for artists, the Tides Institute and Museum of Art (TIMA) in Eastport, Maine, has made arts and culture a crucial component of the city’s character. In addition to TIMA’s Studioworks initiative, many of the city’s residents are actively engaged in festivals and other activities that attract tourism.

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  • A Brooklyn Museum App Encourages Visitors to Ask Questions

    July 06, 2016 |

    Hyperallergic |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Visitors to the Brooklyn Museum can now use the Ask App, a messaging service that provides a way to ask questions and get recommendations about museum holdings in real time from art historians on staff.

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