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TOWTAhttp://www.calmuseums.org/_data/n_0001/resources/live/CQuerio_Teaching.pdf            

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/05/entertainment/la-et-john-lithgow-20110105 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/books/john-lithgows-memoir-drama-an-actors-education.html?src=recg Last year I saw John Lithgow perform a one man play ‘Stories by Heart’ at the Mark Taper Forum.  The solo performance explored Lithgow’s relationship with his father, an itinerant thespian and theater director, and the stories he read Lithgow … Continue reading →

“Art is perhaps concerned with ordering experience and expressing that order not in general statements but in a most succinct and concrete way that nevertheless [refers] to the many diverse orders of experience that man encounters: the natural, the animal, … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/arts/design/andrew-moores-photographic-take-on-detroit-decay.html?ref=design Andrew Moore’s photographs of Detroit reveal an eerie beauty in the abandoned buildings of Detroit.  These images, which some have lambasted as ‘ruin porn’, evoke Piranesi’s 18th century paintings of Roman ruins, a popular backdrop used by artists since … Continue reading →

http://www.calmuseums.org/dsp_emailhandler.cfm?eid=113549&uid=15072 Arts education has been threatened in recent years by budget cuts and teacher furloughs.  Museum education departments are reimagining their roles in public education and are creating new programming to fill the gaps.  At the 2011 CAM Conference presenters … Continue reading →

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Malcolm Bell makes a very incisive critique of the recently published expose’, Chasing Aphrodite. The book, written by LATimes journalist Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino, investigates the Getty Villa and it’s acquisition policy under Marion True. Bell, an archaeologist and … Continue reading →

The Wall Street Journal recently did a series on the moving of the Barnes collections, shifting the conversation away from the much discussed controversy onto the complicated logistic of moving a collection of that magnitude. It makes for an interesting … Continue reading →

http://www.calmuseums.org/_data/n_0001/resources/live/CQuerio_Session1A.pdf Social media and technology have catalyzed community organizations and encouraged non-profit institutions to revisit their missions. In 2007, the Skirball Cultural Center launched the ‘Build a Better World’ initiative.  This ambitious campaign creates an institution-wide framework for building synergistic … Continue reading →