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The dangers of assumption

26 July 202025 March 2015 by drdada

Many years ago, when I worked for the Art Gallery of New South Wales, I ran a travelling art service called “Onsight”*. I took art exhibitions to people for whom a visit to the Gallery would be difficult or impossible, for example, to prisons, hospitals and nursing homes. One day, I visited a nursing home … Read more

Categories Art, Museum education, Museums Tags art, arto, education, klerigado, museums, muzeoj

Does social media have a place in an art museum?

26 July 202027 July 2013 by drdada
A still from the AT&T ad

Dana Allen-Greil posted an article recently, “Everything that’s wrong with society”? Facebook Home in museums. The post was triggered by a TV ad from AT&T in the US, for a mobile phone running Facebook Home (an app that fills the home screen with a steady stream of Facebook posts). In the ad, a woman in … Read more

Categories Art, Museum education, Web Tags art, museums, social media

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