Article Archive for February 2010
Cleversafe and Museum of Broadcast Communications Celebrate Record Growth
Cleversafe Inc., the leader in resilient storage solutions ideally suited for storage clouds and massive digital archives, announced the one year anniversary of working with Chicago-based Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC). Cleversafe’s unique Dispersed Storage™ technology stores historic radio and television content while providing a seamless delivery system to a global audience of approximately 48,000 registered MBC members. Cleversafe’s dsNet system is designed to store MBC’s 100,000 ... Read More
Schommer Retrospective at The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum
The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum is welcoming an exhibition of Alberto Schommer’s work to its BBK Room, entitled Schommer Retrospective 1952-2009. Born in nearby Vitoria, he has produced many still life photographs, portraits, landscapes and “cracklegraphs” which have been incorporated into the Spanish canon of photography. The Schommer Retrospective 1952-2009 offers art buffs an opportunity to learn all about the impact that his work had on the country and on other artists though this exposition of ... Read More
Penn Museum Summer 2010 Day Camp: “Anthropologists in the Making” For Children
PHILADELPHIA, PA – This summer, adventurous children ages 7 through 13 can experience a day camp that takes them through time and across continents at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology on Penn’s campus in Philadelphia. “Anthropologists in the Making,” organized by the Education Department of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, runs eight theme-oriented one-week sessions from June 21 through August 13, 2010. Camp ... Read More
War, Plague and Fire at the Museum of London
War, Plague and Fire, a new gallery exploring the tumultuous century from the accession of Elizabeth 1 in 1558 to the Great Fire of 1666 opens this week at the Museum of London. The Great Fire Experience Bringing alive one of the most turbulent periods in London’s history, the gallery is full of treasures from the Museum’s unique collections, including printing plates from London’s earliest map, rare delftware pottery, exquisite Jacobean jewels, Oliver Cromwell’s death mask, and archaeology from the fire ... Read More
Penn Museum Hosts Photography Exhibition, In Citizen’s Garb: Southern Plains Native Americans, 1889-1891
PHILADELPHIA, PA – In Citizen’s Garb: Southern Plains Native Americans, 1889-1891, a photographic exhibition on view at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology from March 26 through June 20, 2010, explores the ways dress—and life—changed for the Kiowa, Comanche, and other Native American nations of the Southern Plains during the last tumultuous decades of the 1800s. Plains Indian clothing from the period, selected from the Museum’s own collection, complements ... Read More
Smithsonian American Art Museum Presents Exhibition That Celebrates “Running Fence” by Christo and Jeanne-Claude
The most lyrical of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s epic projects was the “Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California, 1972-76.” The ambitious scope and enormous size of this monumental temporary artwork are hard to imagine even today. Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California 1972-76,©Christo. Color photograph by Jeanne-Claude, 1976. Gift of Christo and Jeanne-Claude The exhibition “Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Remembering the ‘Running Fence,’” on view ... Read More
Projects 92: Yin Xiuzhen Large-Scale Sculpture Collective Subconscious Opens at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
NEW YORK,- The Museum of Modern Art presents Projects 92: Yin Xiuzhen, the first U.S. installation of the artist’s large-scale sculpture Collective Subconscious (2007), February 24 through March 24, 2010. Yin Xiuzhen’s (Chinese, b. 1963) site-specific installations and sculptures bridge the past and the present, the environmental and the personal. Collective Subconscious is a 38-foot-long minivan that has been bisected and lengthened via a tube covered in a patchwork of secondhand garments and set upon rows ... Read More
Tutankhamun’s Funeral Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum
In 1908, while excavating in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, American archaeologist Theodore Davis discovered about a dozen large storage jars. Their contents included broken pottery, bags of natron (a mixture of sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium sulphate, and sodium chloride that occurs naturally in Egypt), bags of sawdust, floral collars, and pieces of linen with markings from years 6 and 8 during the reign of a then little-known pharaoh named Tutankhamun. The Metropolitan Museum of Art was given ... Read More
J. Paul Getty Museum to Host Seminar on Ethiopian Manuscript
The J. Paul Getty Museum presents Ethiopian Manuscript Illumination in Context, a half-day seminar examining the Museum’s recently acquired Ethiopian Gospel book from 1504/5. The seminar features prominent scholars of Ethiopian Christianity and illumination, presenting current research to enrich understanding of this fascinating manuscript. Attendees will also have the opportunity to view the Ethiopian Gospels featured in the current Museum exhibition Building the Medieval World. Ethiopian Manuscript ... Read More
Magenta Installation at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Magenta Research, a US based manufacturer of high quality video extension solutions recently announced an installation at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. Magenta was chosen to provide a solution that extends the transmission of high definition video, audio and touch screen control. The Smithsonian desired a clean looking kiosk installation that integrated into the aesthetics of the museum’s environment. This meant that hardware such as the PC driving the kiosk needed to be ... Read More
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