Elena Stylianou is Assistant Professor of Art History and Theory at the European University, Cyprus. She earned a PhD in Art Theory from Columbia University, USA and completed her postdoctoral fellowship research at the University of London, UK. She has taught at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, and has received numerous fellowships and awards including the Fulbright and the Spencer. Her research interests include contemporary art, curatorial practices and pedagogy, photography, and archives. She is currently the principle investigator of the funded research...

Museum Thresholds is a progressively interdisciplinary volume, in which a range of international experts explore the importance and potential of entrance spaces for visitor experience. The chapters, in the three themed sections, explore a range of museum thresholds: first as a problem space; then through different media; and finally from the perspective of other subjects and professions (performance, gaming, retail and discourse studies) each of which have much to bring to future thinking and design.

Taking The Fowler Museum at UCLA, USA, as its central subject, this edited collection traces how university museum practices have expanded the understanding of the 'art object' in recent years. It is argued that the meaning of cultural objects infused with the heritage and identity of 'global culture' has been developed substantially through the innovative approaches of university scholars, museum curators, and...