Dear List,
Here's a new book which might be of interest to list members:
B. Altshuler (ed.) (2005), Collecting the New: museums and contemporary
art, Princeton UP.
Contents list:
Bruce Altshuler, "Collecting the New: A Historical Introduction"
Howard N. Fox, The Right to Be Wrong
Robert Storr, "To Have and to Hold"
Jeffrey Weiss, "9 Minutes 45 Seconds"
Christopher Cherix, "Breaking Down Categories: Print Rooms, Drawing
Departments, and the Museum"
Chrissie Iles and Henriette Huldisch, "Keeping Time: On Collecting Film
and Video Art"
Steve Dietz, "Collecting New Media Art: Just Like Anything Else, Only
Different"
Vishakha N. Desai, "Beyond the 'Authentic-Exotic'" Collecting
Contemporary Asian Art in the Twinty-first Century"
Pamela McClusky, "The Unsconscious Museum: Collecting Contemporary
African Art without Knowing It"
Gabriel Perez-Barreiro, "The Accidental Tourist: American Collections
of Latin American Art"
Lowery Stokes Sims, "Collecting the Art of African-Americans at the
Studio Museum in Harlem: Positioning the 'New' from the Perspective of
the Past
Glenn Wharton, "The Challenges of Conserving Contemporary Art"
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Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art
School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture, University of Sunderland
Tel: +44 191 515 2896 [log in to unmask]
CRUMB web resource for new media art curators
http://www.crumbweb.org
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