You'll have to Google several of these topics to find specific articles.
But for now I would recommend:
1) Towards A New Museum by Victoria Newhouse - this should address
questions 3 and 4
2) Recent New York Times articles on the brand new High Museum of Art
expansion designed by Renzo Piano (the original building was designed by Richard
Meier) - relevant to question 4
3) Americans for the Arts (
www.artsusa.org) has a lot of information on
the economic impact of the arts and arts and economic development - relevant to
question 1
4) Any of the recent debates on the Barnes Foundation Art Collection in
Philadelphia and whether or not the collection should be moved - relevant to
question 2
5) Any information you might find on the Georgia Aquarium, the High Museum
of Art in Atlanta, or the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga - relevant to
question 1
Meanwhile, it would be great if you could publish the course reading
list to MUSEUM-L once it is completed.
Allen Bell
Executive Director
Rome Area Council for the Arts
Rome, GA
I'm
writing on behalf of a professor in NYU's Moving Image Archiving and
Preservation program. For a class on
Contemporary Cultural
Institutions, we are looking for readings (academic articles, anthologies,
governmental
reports) on the following topics:
1) The value of such
institutions, cultural, and otherwise: eg. the impact of Gehry's Bilbao
Guggenheim on
revitalizing that port, or Baltimore's aquarium. In
short, what are some of the reasons mayors want museums?
2) The
compromises such institutions negotiate between private funders' wishes and
their public mission.
3) Anything on the process of assessing the
viability of a new cultural institution eg. the new Baryshnikov Center
at
NYU. What type of studies are done beforehand, and so on.
4) The
trend for building flashy extensions by prestigious architects, and the
relation of that to other
destinations for the money eg. to investing in
collections, etc..
Any suggestions are welcome, and I'll be happy to
answer any questions about the course that you may have.
Please
reply off-list.
Best,
Jeff Martin
New York
University
Moving Image Archiving and
Preservation
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