The Legler Benbough Foundation, in San Diego California, has always recognized that cultural institutions in Balboa Park play a critical role in the cultural life of the City. Over the past 20 years the Foundation has focused significant resources on these institutions and their supporting environment, Balboa Park. The objectives of this funding are as [...]
I don’t often recommend reading court documents (boring!) but this one is worth it. As Techdirt put it, “You gotta love snarky legal filings.” The whole enchilada is available here. The North Face is suing the parody clothing company The South Butt for trademark infringement, giving rise to some erudite logo design analysis: The “half [...]
I spend the better part of my day worrying about fake Italian Renaissance paintings. And now today’s news (www.bloomberg.com) brings me another kind of fake to worry about: fake wine. Oh wait, I’m not a billionaire wine collector, am I? Back to the Renaissance I go. –hmw ***I am currently experiencing technical difficulty and cannot [...]
We don’t have a lot of time on this earth! We weren’t meant to spend it this way. Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.–Peter Gibbons (in Office Space) — [...]
As many of you know, last year I left the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles to take a position as the Director of a new organization called the Balboa Park Online Collaborative (BPOC) in San Diego. I have been meaning to try and make some posts here to let people know what the BPOC [...]
One of my museum studies students forwarded me this BBC article about a bet between Indianapolis and New Orleans. I wanna be Maxwell Anderson when I grow up.
Ultra cool. “A legitimate attempt to push storytelling boundaries by quietly superimposing a supplemental, moving layer atop a pre-existing printed narrative.” “”The set-up [a book, a lamp, and a laptop] seems perfectly harmless at first sight. But as soon as you open the book under the lamp … the pages take on new animated and [...]
For more on the secret technology of English muffins read this recent article from law.com. Now if only I had a skill, or some secret knowledge….
If so, I’ve got a couple of recommendations for you. At the Pierpont Morgan: “A Woman’s Wit: Jane Austen’s Life and Legacy.“ Great little exhibition. As I wrote my friend Sarah this morning, I love going to the Pierpont Morgan as much for the supplementary objects on view as for the main focus of an [...]
Today is #followamuseum Day on Twitter. Museums and museum lovers have been busily sharing their favorite tweeting museums. At http://www.followamuseum.org you can find some (but not all) of the museums who are waiting to be followed. The idea originated with Jim Richardson at Museum Marketing who was disappointed to see that Bill Gate had attracted [...]
Musematic is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 2.5 License.
Musematic masthead created by Mike Rippy and is courtesy of the Indianapolis Museum of Art
Rin Template created by Khaled Abou Alfa and Joshua. Powered by WordPress.
Bad Behavior has blocked 696 access attempts in the last 7 days.