Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General

This book examines do-it-yourself (DIY) approaches to the collection, preservation, and display of popular music heritage being undertaken by volunteers in community archives, museums and halls of fame globally. DIY institutions of popular music heritage are much more than 'unofficial' versions of 'official' institutions; rather, they invoke a complex network of affect and sociality, and are sites where interested people - often enthusiasts - are able to assemble around shared goals related to the preservation of and ownership over the material histories of popular music culture. Drawing...

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is widely recognized as the preeminent institution that defined twentieth-century art through its collection shaping our understandings of the history of art, with its hierarchies and exclusions, as they sediment over time. MoMA s lesser-known holdings of art from Latin America shed light on a key period which created stylistic categories that have since come to be accepted by many today as the Modernist canon. This study sheds light on an as yet unstudied aspect of MoMA s preeminent role in establishing the definition of the problematic term "Latin American...

By the beginning of the 20^th century, Amden, Switzerland, was already a place for social and artistic experimentation. In the past 15 years, many artists have been invited to stage exhibits at the Atelier Amden, in a small barn. This publication documents all of the exhibitions and installations and describes and discusses each of the aesthetic projects.

• Provides a comprehensive global history of biennialization from the rise of the European star-curator in the 1970s to the emergence of mega-exhibitions in Asia in the 1990s
• Introduces a global array of case studies to illustrate the trajectory of biennials and their growing influence on artistic expression, from the Biennale de la MEditerranEe in Alexandria, Egypt in 1955,...