Jamespkinsella - James P Kinsella

The freelance museum educators working in New York City are a particular breed of professional: highly trained (often with specialized skills for teaching populations with cognitive issues or physical disabilities), mostly possessing advanced degrees, frequently in love with their jobs. For museums, having these vitally committed, knowledgeable personnel to provide a human face for the institution is essential to one of their main objectives: helping the children and adults they teach to develop a long-lasting relationship with the museum. These freelancers are also mostly women who have backgrounds in art history, education, writing, or commercial art trading, or are themselves practicing artists.

The Precarious Lives of Freelance Museum Educators

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Thomas Cole’s sublime “The Course of Empire” headlines an exhibition of 45 landscapes that opened at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on December 7.

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Uni and Chloe Zola Volcano spoke with author and artist Tom McCarthy about Salvador Dalí, anthropology, and zombie porn.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4izFzVCzx6A)

And as she enters her 70s, Carolee Schneemann, describing herself as a painter who extended the canvas into real space and time, is as fearless and frank as ever.

Thank you for following my baby blog. I hope so far I’ve, at the very least, made you smile with my posts and reblogs, and admittedly most of this is reblogs.

Tonight I could not avoid it; I watched the news on Typhoon Yolanda (known as Haiyan internationally) and it breaks my heart to see my...