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Watch "Shoah" (1985)
Watch Claude Lanzmann’s classic documentary about the Holocaust in 59 parts on youtube.
Free! The Guggenheim has put 65 modern art books and catalogues online.
From OpenCulture:
In recent days, the museum has made 65 art catalogues available online, all free of charge. The catalogues offer an intellectual and visual introduction to the work of Alexander Calder, Edvard Munch, Francis Bacon, Gustav Klimt & Egon Schiele, and Kandinsky. Plus there are other texts (e.g., Masterpieces of Modern Art and Abstract Expressionists Imagists) that tackle meta movements and themes.
Now let me give you a few handy instructions to get you started. 1.) Select a text from the collection. 2.) Click the “Read Catalogue Online” button. 3.) Start reading the book in the pop-up browser, and use the controls at thevery bottom of the pop-up browser to move through the book. 4.) If you have any problems accessing these texts, you can find alternate versions on Archive.org, which lets you download books in multiple formats – ePUB, PDF and the rest.
Royal Society Opens Online Archive; Puts 60,000 Papers Online
Maggie Koerth-Baker writes:
60,000 peer-reviewed papers, including the first peer-reviewed scientific research journal in the world, are now available free online. The Royal Society has opened its historical archives to the public. Among the cool stuff you’ll find here: Issac Newton’s first published research paper and Ben Franklin’s write-up aboutthat famous kite experiment. Good luck getting anything accomplished today. Or ever again. —
Maggie Koerth-Baker of BoingBoing writes:
On Curating "Curating Critique" - Free online Journal to download
The reader presents a cross-section of the voices that populate the ongoing debate about, on the one hand, how and in what terms curating functions as a critical cultural practice, and on the other, what methodologies and histories exist with which we can critically analyse curatorial work today. This collection of essays was first published in 2007 by Revolver, in Frankfurt am Main and ICE, Institute for Curatorship and Education, Edinburgh College of Art as the first ICE Reader.
The Reader was quickly sold-out and it is in the spirit of wishing to make the valuable contributions within available to a broader public that we are reissuing the entire book as an issue of the on-curating journal. The Book was conceived of by its guest-editors Barnaby Drabble, curator and lecturer ECAV and Dorothee Richter, curator and head of Postgraduate Program in Curating, Institute Cultural Studies of the Arts, Departement Cultural Analysis, Zurich University of the Arts, and commissioned and edited by Marianne Eigenheer, director of the Institute for Curatorship and Education at Edinburgh College of Art and editor of the ICE series. We are very grateful to all authors and contributors for their permission to re-publish, and to all supporters of the original publication.
Contributions by:
Marianne Eigenheer, Barnaby Drabble, Dorothee Richter, Sarat Maharaj, Beatrice von Bismarck, Per Hüttner and Gavin Wade, Rober M. Buergel and Ruth Noack, Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt, Maria Lind and Paul O’Neill, Oliver Marchart, Beryl Graham and Sarah Cook, Marion von Osten, Sarat Maharaj and Giliane Tawadros, Ute Meta Bauer and Marius Babias, Walter Grasskamp.
Free online Museum Studies Resources
I am lucky to be a student and have access to JSTOR and other online journal facilities. But those things are expensive for people who are working for institutions that don’t pay for access or people who are simply interested or trying to break into the sector.
And so I give you: the Museumsandstuff list of free, online, high-quality museum related literature. None of the websites require sign-up or logins to access at least some of their material.
Also, if you know of any glaring omissions let me know and I will add them post haste.
http://conference.archimuse.com/researchForum - Extensive collection from Archimuse “The online space for Cultural informatics”. There must be literally hundreds of papers available here.
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/online_journals.aspx - three free, online journals from the British Museum.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/res_cons/research/index.html - V&A’s research section has an online journal, access to previous conference documentation etc, research reports, best practice reports and more.
http://www.tate.org.uk/research/tateresearch/ - Publishes a free scholarly journal about Tate’s collection and programme.
http://www.le.ac.uk/ms/museumsociety.html - Peer reviewed online, totally free journal with some big names and interesting special issues.
http://museumstudies.si.edu/bull/bullt.htm - From the Smithsonian. Not all are available online, but a few are. Also has some good links for museum studies enthusiasts (especially the webcasts: http://museumstudies.si.edu/webcasts.html).
http://www.getty.edu/research/publications/electronic_publications/ - has some books that are available online for free chapter-by-chapter.
http://archives.icom.museum/object-id/publications.html - ICOM have a few reports and professional standards documents online and freely accessible.
http://www.aam-us.org/sp/index.cfm - American Association of Museums offer some of their reports and articles for free, others you have to have a log in for.
http://www.fihrm.org/resources.html - Federation of International Human Rights Museums: only a couple of things at the moment, but a brand new organisation which will continue to add case studies and resources as time goes on.
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en - UNESCO’s Culture page has a lot of resources on best practice and how museums can protect and promote cultural heritage.
http://www.museum-joanneum.at/en/museumsakademie/download - From the Museums Academy in Linz (linked to the Universal Museum of the same name). Most are in German, but there are a couple in English too.
http://www.kulturvermittlerinnen.at/archiv.htm - Austrian Association of Cultural Mediators in Museums and Exhibitions has an archive with some documents in Engish from workshops and conferences they have held.
*Update - thanks to TheMuseumDoctor and Richard Sandell and Anonymous
https://lra.le.ac.uk/handle/2381/3 - Leicester’s School of Museum Studies Research Archive
http://www.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/research/phdmusrev.html - Leicester’s PhD Research Museological Review
http://www.le.ac.uk/ms/research/rcmgpublicationsandprojects.html - Leicester (again, they are really good for accessibility!) Research Centre for Museums and Galleries
http://issuu.com/a_m_c - Canadian Museums Association have put their magazine “The voice of Canada’s museum community’ and their annual reports online
http://name-aam.org/resources/exhibitionist/back-issues-and-online-archive - NAME has started putting past issues of its journal, Exhibitionist online.
Would you like a free book? Let this link to Bill Moggridge’s “Designing Interaction” book be an early Christmas present.
Here’s the blurb:
Digital Technology has changed the way we interact with everything from the games we play to the tools we use at work.
Designers of digital technology products no longer regard their job as designing a physical object—beautiful or utilitarian—but as designing our interactions with it. In Designing Interactions, Bill Moggridge, designer of the first laptop computer (the GRiD Compass, 1981) and a founder of the design firm IDEO, tells us stories from an industry insider’s viewpoint, tracing the evolution of ideas from inspiration to outcome.
Moggridge and his interviewees discuss why a personal computers have windows in desktops, what made Palm’s handheld organizers so successful, what turns a game into a hobby, why Google is the search engine of choice, and why 30 million people in Japan choose the i-mode service for their cell phones. And Moggridge tells the story of his own design process and explains the focus on people and prototypes that has been successful at IDEO—how the needs and desires of people can inspire innovative designs and how prototyping methods are evolving for the design of digital technology.
