Google Art Project Deux
Starting today, you can find the Brooklyn Museum in Google Art Project. I’m here in Paris at the launch for the second phase where more than a hundred museums contributed images of works in their...
View ArticleWikiLink (QR Redux)
You may remember my blog post a while back, QR in the New Year? In it, I talked about our QR code testing and reported on some rather alarming #fails that we were seeing like five to ten fold drops in...
View ArticleA Sunset for 1stfans
It’s been roughly three and half years since Will Cary and I started the 1stfans Membership program at the Museum; come July, the program will come to a close with a sunset—quite literally. How do you...
View ArticleLet’s GO
Over the years many people have asked me if we’d do Click! again and my general response has been to say that we wouldn’t do a repeat; that our answer would be to take the lessons we learned and do...
View ArticleGoing Local with a Distributed Network
You’ve probably heard that if Brooklyn were its own city, we’d be the fourth largest in the United States. With a land mass of 73 square miles, 2 and half million people and 67 neighborhoods, you can...
View ArticleWhy Artist Registration for GO Continues to Surprise Me
As Sharon mentioned in her post yesterday, we continue to get a lot of questions and wanted to answer a few of them prior to the artist registration period coming to an end. We see this one a lot, “I’m...
View Article1861 Artists Will Open Their Studio Doors Sept 8-9
When Sharon and I first started discussing the project that would become GO, one of our sources of inspiration was a map that the Brooklyn Arts Council had created of the artists in its Registry. What...
View ArticleLearning from ArtPrize
As we continue to move forward throughout the summer, it seems fitting to talk about the inspiration behind GO. I’ve already mentioned that the Brooklyn Arts Council Registry had a big hand in helping...
View ArticlePartnering with NYCHA for GO
GO is a project that’s rooted in community, but “community” is one of those words that can have a lot of different meanings. As Sharon and I conceptualized GO, we thought a lot about this—how is...
View ArticleGetting Beyond the Like Button
The open studio weekend is just 16 days away and as we get closer, it’s worth taking a look at some of the participatory design choices we’ve made and reasons why. Many people mistakenly think that GO...
View ArticleOpen Studio Weekend Visitation Statistics
As the nomination phase of GO continues this week, now is a good time to review the weekend and share some statistics about weekend visitation rates. Here’s a brief rundown of what happened, and we’ll...
View ArticleJoin us in Celebrating GO
It’s hard to believe we are here after dozens of artist and voter meetups throughout the summer; an exhilarating open studio weekend that resulted in 147,000 studio visits; nominations and curator...
View Article3D Printing for Accessibility
In the last year, we’ve seen a lot happening in the museum space with 3D printing. The Smithsonian is working on what looks like a enormous project, the Met has a ongoing series of initiatives that...
View ArticleJoin us at #table17
The Brooklyn Artists Ball is coming up next week and it’s an event that we are super excited about; this year’s ball celebrates Brooklyn and our guests will dine at sixteen tables designed especially...
View ArticleMoving Toward a Conversation
If you’ve ever heard me speak at conferences you know that one of our most successful technology projects is also one of our simplest—the comment kiosk. First run off of mini PCs with touch screens and...
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