Developing NYARC: the New York Art Resources Consortium

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
Stephen Bury
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Museum Of Modern Art ◽  
Metropolitan Museum ◽  
The Public ◽  
Metropolitan Museum Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Brooklyn Museum

NYARC is a consortium of New York art resources, initially including the libraries of Brooklyn Museum, the Frick Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. The Metropolitan was not part of the Arcade (integrated libraries system) programme funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and withdrew its designation as a NYARC entity in December 2010. This article gives a brief history of NYARC and examines whether it achieved its aims of sharing resources, making them more accessible to the public, and saving money.

Eat yourself fitter: John Latham and Clement Greenberg’s Art and Culture

2000 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-44
Author(s):  
Simon Ford
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Conceptual Art ◽  
Suitable Condition ◽  
Museum Of Modern Art ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
History Of

In 1966 John Latham and some friends began chewing Clement Greenberg’s book Art and culture: collected essays. The resulting art work, entitled Art and Culture (1966-1969), is now recognised as a seminal conceptual art work and is part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Latham, however, had borrowed the book from St. Martin’s School of Art library and when he was unable to return it in a suitable condition his teaching contract was not renewed. This essay looks at the history of the work, the ideas behind its creation, and the issues it raises for the culture of the book today.

The Museum of Primitive Art, 1940–1982

Entitled ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 41-69
Author(s):  
Jennifer C. Lena
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Metropolitan Museum ◽  
Ideal Case ◽  
Metropolitan Museum Of Art ◽  
Art Collection ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation

This chapter discusses the creation of the Museum of Primitive Art (MPA). The history of Michael C. Rockefeller's primitive art collection provides an ideal case study of the process of artistic legitimation. Through a detailed analysis of the complete organizational archive—including memos, publications, journals, and administrative paperwork—one can observe this process in detail. The small group of MPA administrators fought to promote artistic interpretations of the objects in the collection against the established view that they were anthropological curiosities. However, these objects were removed from their sites of production and early circulation and left in the care of American curators and tastemakers to make of them what they will; in Rockefeller's case, he leveraged them to produce capital he used in a struggle with other collectors and museum administrators. What he did not do is redistribute those resources toward living artists or register much hesitation about moving those objects to New York. Nor did he have to acknowledge the labor done by earlier advocates of these arts in black internationalist movements. Nevertheless, Rockefeller's triumph was the eventual inclusion of his collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), as the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing.

scholarly journals Instagram as Digital Communication Tool for the Museums: a Reflection on Prospectives and Opportunities through the Analysis of the Profiles of Louvre Museum and Metropolitan Museum of New York

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Michela Zingone
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Daily Activity ◽  
Communication Channel ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Metropolitan Museum ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Communication Plan ◽  
The Public ◽  
Metropolitan Museum Of Art ◽  
Louvre Museum

Launched in October 2010, Instagram is nowadays one of the most used social networks. According to the latest data released by the platform in 2018, in fact, the number of active users exceeded one million. From the public to the private sector, several actors have integrated Instagram into their communication plan. Among them, there are also the museum institutions. The object of this article is to look at what types of contents museums usually share and to understand how they are using this innovative communication channel based essentially on images to document, communicate their daily activity, their identity, and get in touch with users. Through the method of the content analysis, we propose a qualitative analysis of the posts published in a period of 30 days on the official profiles of the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Totem symbols in decorative traditions of the peoples of pre-Columbian America: conflict or harmony?

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Boris Vasilievich Kabylinskii
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Metropolitan Museum ◽  
The Public ◽  
Metropolitan Museum Of Art ◽  
Art Objects ◽  
Fundamental Research ◽  
The Subject

The object of this research is a totem symbol in decorative tradition of the peoples of pre-Columbian America. The subject of this research is the images of jaguar in the art of the Aztecs of Mesoamerica. The images of a human and jaguar are captured on the metal, stone and clay artifacts of pre-Columbian civilizations that are available to the public in Mexico City National Museum of Anthropology, Peruvian Museum of the Nation in Lima, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D. C. The research methodology is based on compilation of the results of fundamental research of the leading scholars of North American School of Anthropology. The article conduct a general systematization and brief analytics of scientific records on the specificity of Mesoamerican decorative tradition of totem symbols throughout an extensive period of time: 1500 BC – 400 AD (Olmec Civilization), III century BC – VII century AD (Teotihuacan Civilization), 900 BC – 200 AD (Chavín Civilization), 750 BC – 100 AD (Paracas Civilization), 2300 – 1200 BC (Kotosh Civilization), 1250 – 1470 AD (Chimú Civilization). The presented materials substantiate the thesis that jaguar as a totem symbol carried out the functions of unification and identification of ethnoses of Mesoamerica, reflecting relevant sociocultural trends at various stages of anthropogenesis. The novelty of this work consists in scientific systematization of the facts that the nuances of fusion of the images of human and jaguar in art objects of Aztec culture reflect a harmonious or turbulent frame of mind in pre-Columbian era.

The New York Digital Salon: A Memoir

Leonardo ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Bruce Wands
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Digital Art ◽  
Museum Of Modern Art ◽  
International Forum ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Arts Festival ◽  
Twentieth Anniversary

Abstract This article traces the twenty-year history of the New York Digital Salon. Started in 1993 to provide an annual venue for digital art images in New York City, it quickly expanded into an international forum for exhibitions, panel discussions, lectures, screenings and a website. In addition to these events, we created a collection of videotaped panel discussions with well-known digital artists and curators from our 2002 Digital Art & Culture Symposium held at the Museum of Modern Art Theatre. From 1995-2002, the artwork was included, along with essays on digital art, in eight issues of Leonardo. A tenth exhibition was held during 2002 at the World Financial Center, along with over twenty events, panel discussions and lectures that were part of the Downtown Arts Festival. In 2013, we celebrated our twentieth anniversary with the “American Algorists: Linear Sublime,” exhibition and catalog featuring Jean Pierre Hebert, Manfred Mohr, Michael Noll, Roman Verostko and Mark Wilson.

Theorizing Palimpsests

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-208
Author(s):  
Aslı Iğsız
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Metropolitan Museum ◽  
Metropolitan Museum Of Art ◽  
The Past ◽  
Structural Problems ◽  
Structural Nature ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many

Abstract How do we connect the past with the present to address structural problems? While the pursuit of a cause-and-effect past flowing into the present contributes to the understanding of an event or object, how that past is recalled, represented, related, disconnected, suppressed, and/or obfuscated in any given present matters. This article proposes palimpsests as a critical tool for analyzing the many histories of the present. To illustrate this theoretical practice, the article offers a palimpsestic reading of a museumized object, the Nubian Temple of Dendur, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The structural nature of a history of the present comes into view only when one is able to discern multiple histories, presents, categories, and objects layered together within the palimpsest of history.

Barr, Alfred H. Jr. (1902–1981)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoniette M. Guglielmo
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Board Of Trustees ◽  
Abstract Art ◽  
Museum Of Modern Art ◽  
The Public ◽  
Founding Director ◽  
Architecture And Design ◽  
Film And Video

Alfred H. Barr, Jr. was an art historian and the founding director of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Manhattan, New York, from 1929 to 1943. Upon assuming his post at the museum in August 1929, Barr proceeded to establish the institution as America’s first and premiere museum devoted exclusively to modern art. His vision involved developing an intellectual foundation for the development of modern art and popularizing it for the public. As part of this work, Barr created new collection areas not previously conceptualized as part of an art museum, such as film and video, photography, architecture and design, and industrial art. Barr conceptualized a canon for the development of modern art and the origins of abstraction, diagramming it in the exhibition catalog Cubism and Abstract Art (1936). During his tenure, he organized more than 100 exhibitions largely focused on European modernism. Barr was dismissed as Director in 1943 by the chairperson of MoMA’s board of trustees, but stayed involved with MoMA in various capacities until 1968.

The Library of the Museum of Modern Art New York

1985 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clive Phillpot
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Museum Of Modern Art ◽  
Present Collection ◽  
History Of

In the Summer of 1984 the Library of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, re-opened in a purpose-designed space, following the expansion and renovation of the Museum by Cesar Pelli. This article traces the history of the Library from its origin at the foundation of the Museum in 1929, to date, and describes the scope of the present collection and some of its particular strengths.

scholarly journals Repatriation of Cultural Property–Who Owns the Past? An Introduction to Approaches and to Selected Statutory Instruments

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol A. Roehrenbeck
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Cultural Property ◽  
Metropolitan Museum ◽  
Public Television ◽  
The Public ◽  
Metropolitan Museum Of Art ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Press

Should cultural property taken by a stronger power or nation remain with that country or should it be returned to the place where it was created? Since the 1990s this question has received growing attention from the press, the public and the international legal community. For example, prestigious institutions such as the J. Paul Getty Museum of Art in Los Angeles and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York have agreed to return looted or stolen artwork or antiquities. British smuggler Jonathan Tokeley-Parry was convicted and served three years in prison for his role in removing as many as 2,000 antiquities from Egypt. Getty director Marion True defended herself against charges that she knowingly bought antiquities that had been illegally excavated from Italy and Greece. New books on the issue of repatriation of art and antiquities have captured the attention of the public. A documentary based on one of these books was shown in theaters and aired on public television. The first international academic symposium on the topic was convened in New York City in January 1995.

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