Projects tagged "museum"

Virtual Museum Law Conference on the Pandemic Effects
Practitioner:
Work from home Lawyers
Date:
Mar 15 2021
"Work-from-home lawyers and museum staff convened by webinar on 11 and 12 March, for an annual conference on Legal Issues in Museum Administration, hosted by the non-profit American Law Institute with the support of the Smithsonian Institution. This year’s focus was decidedly shaped by the Covid-19 pandemic, which has squeezed museums financially and pushed ever more museum activity into the digital realm.
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Environmental protection is the greatest religion, says Chinese artist
Practitioner:
Yuan Xikun
Date:
Aug 8 2014
By a pond inside one of the entrances to Beijing’s Chaoyang Park lies a cluster of one and two storey red pyramid-shaped buildings. Sculptures of Gandhi and Lincoln and other famous figures sit in the quiet woods nearby. This is Yuan Xikun’s Jin Tai Art Museum.
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Not Ready to Make Nice: 30th Anniversary of Guerrilla Girls
Practitioner:
Guerrilla Girls
Date:
May 15 2015
NOT READY TO MAKE NICE: GUERRILLA GIRLS BIRTHDAY 30 YEARS AND STILL COUNTING! BLOWOUT PARTY WITH DJ AND CAKE! Friday, May 15 8-10 PM • ABRONS ARTS CENTER 466 GRAND ST, NY ALSO AT ABRONS ARTS CENTER 466 GRAND ST, NY • May 1-17, 2015: Pop Up Exhibition of GG work 1985-2015 • May 17: Exhibition walkthroughs 3pm
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Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects at the Legacy Gallery in Victoria, B.C.
Practitioner:
University of Vitoria
Date:
Jan 28 2018
We’re proud to announce the third iteration of Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects, an ongoing series of exhibitions organized by Chris E. Vargas, Executive Director of the Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art! For this iteration Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects brings together art and archival material from University of Victoria’s world-renowned Transgender Archives to narrate an expansive and critical history of transgender communities.
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"Human Cost" Oily Protest at the Tate
Practitioner:
Liberate Tate
Date:
Apr 20 2011
On the one-year anniversary of the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, artist-activists at Liberate Tate staged a guerrilla performance in the Tate Britain galleries to highlight the museum's ties to BP.
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There’s So Much I Want to Say to You
Practitioner:
Sharon Hayes
Date:
Jun 27 2012
At the press preview for Sharon Hayes’s new full-floor exhibition “There’s So Much I Want to Say to You” at the Whitney Museum there was a podium and a microphone set up in the center of the gallery that would eventually be used by director Adam Weinberg and curator Chrissie Iles to introduce the artist and her restless work.
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Decolonize this Museum: Anti-Columbus Day Tour Attended by Hundreds at the American Museum of Natural History
Practitioner:
Decolonize This Place
Date:
Oct 9 2017
About: Hundreds of people came out to attend a decolonization tour of one of New York’s most popular museums. Written by Elena Goukassian on October 10, 2017
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GULF Protest at the Guggenheim
Practitioner:
GULF, Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction
Date:
Feb 22 2014
Last night, over 40 protesters staged an intervention inside the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan during Saturday night’s pay-what-you-wish admission hours.
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Celebrating the history of black creativity
Practitioner:
Lubaina Himid
Date:
Jan 1 1991
"A Tanzanian-born, Preston-based artist, curator and cultural activist, Lubaina Himid aims to 'fill in the gaps of history', giving representation to marginalised histories and to what was previously invisible or silenced. Significantly, Himid's art reinserts black narratives into the forefront of cultural practice and conversation.
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"Great Men" - Marlene Dumas at Manifesta 10
Practitioner:
Marlene Dumas, Manifesta 10
Date:
Jun 28 2014
AMSTERDAM — “When I was in the army, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.”
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