Museums

During a recent museum visit to my beloved local museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art, I was completely blindsided by Omar Ba: Political Animals. I truly didn’t realize it was there. I had gone in to see their main special exhibition, A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great…

Galleries are essential to the art world and to the development of the arts community as a whole, hence it is important that the community become involved with them. Volunteering and regular gallery visits are only two easy methods for community members to show their support for local art spaces…

When did the last time you had a travel without a plan? Does it scare you a bit when you go to a place without a map, or work on a project without a milestone, or climb a mountain alone, or go on an interview without a script. How do…

Location — Berlin, Germany — ‘“Spiritual themes in apocryphals remain impartial to the observer with the saying, “As above, so below.” In the new age of NFTs, mental floss becomes a new rhetoric or figurative speech for minting tradition at the Gemäldegalerie.”’ The Math Projector Visitors become guests. Medicine cabinets serve as hidden relics to menthol, gumdrops, and…

With hundreds of people and literally millions of objects, grappling with all the potential stories National Museums Scotland has to explore is no small task. How can we harness the raging content river’s power instead of being at its mercy? And how do we produce content that matters? — Medieval chess pieces, a stegosaurian dinosaur fossil, a grave-robber-proof mortsafe, a delicately embroidered crucifixion scene, Dolly the sheep, a glass sculpture of a baby’s head…

Our ACMI Labs team has spent the past few weeks prototyping, building, and integrating automated video transcriptions into XOS, our museum operating system, using OpenAI Whisper. We did this to help uncover the details of what’s in our video archive — a lot of which contains amateur films and home…

‘To name things wrongly is to add to the misfortune of the world” Albert Camus “Quisieron enterrarnos, pero no sabían que éramos semillas” Mexican Proverb “Any organism has feelings” Andreas Weber I strongly believe that one of our gravest problems as pandemic cultural professionals is that we don’t have seductive…