Remix : changing conversations in museums of the Americas /

Remix : changing conversations in museums of the Americas / edited by Selma Holo and Mari-Tere Álvarez.

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"Celebrating the diversity of institutions in the United States, Latin America, and Canada, Remix aims to change the discourse about museums from the inside out, proposing a new, 'panarchic'--Nonhierarchical, adaptive, community-oriented--vision for museum practice and audience engage...

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Other Authors: Holo, Selma (Editor), Alvarez, Mari-Tere (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Museums > United States.
Museums > Latin America.
Museums > Canada.
Museums.
Canada.
Latin America.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: panarchy and the museum
  • Chapter One
  • Origins
  • Reflecting on origins / Selma Holo and Mari-Tere Álvarez, United States
  • What legacy will we leave on these walls? / Óscar Arias Sánchez, Costa Rica
  • A project to create a peace museum in Costa Rica : a nation that abolished the army / Manuel Araya-Incera, Costa Rica
  • Rethinking the spirit of a museum : Atzompa archaeological site / Nelly M. Robles García, Mexico
  • Lessons learned in the principles and practice of community museums / Cuauhtémoc Camarena and Teresa Morales, Mexico
  • The Museum of Art of Puerto Rico, or, the reconstitution of a history of art / Héctor Feliciano, Puerto Rico
  • Peru does not need museums / Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru
  • A Mexican national museum in Chicago : integrating cultures / Carlos Tortolero, United States
  • The multinodal institution : going off the grid / Lori Starr, United States
  • The Museum of Oaxaca / Edward Rothstein, United States
  • Chapter Two
  • Conserving
  • Reflections on conserving : conservation and conservatism / Selma Holo and Mari-Tere Álvarez, United States
  • Conservation, stewardship, and the future of AMA: Art Museum of the Americas, part I / Lydia Bendersky, Chile
  • Stewardship and the future of AMA: Art Museum of the Americas, part II / Andrés Nava, Colombia
  • For whom the human remains? / Ben Garcia, United States
  • Reimagining an ethical approach to museum collections / Stephen E. Nash and Chip Colwell, United States
  • Small museums and the 'cultural revolution' in Venezuela, 2001-2012 / Guillermo Barrios, Venezuela
  • Repairing a lost history in Rio de Janeiro: a challenge for the twenty-first century / Piedade Grinberg, Brazil
  • On and off the hill in Los Angeles : making connections and making a difference / Clare Kunny, United States
  • Art and beyond : some contemporary challenges for art and anthropology museums / Ivan Gaskell, United States
  • A museum is a museum is a museum is a museum : museums and networks / Vanda Vitali, Canada
  • Chapter 3
  • Uncertaint y
  • Reflecting on uncertainty and reform / Selma Holo and Mari-Tere Álvarez, United States
  • Freeing up art museums / Maxwell L. Anderson, United States
  • The arts and citizens in transition : a case study from the Pulitzer / Kristina Van Dyke, United States
  • The contemporary museum in a new creative agenda / Richard Koshalek and Erica Clark, United States
  • A new 'place' for museums in the digital age / Susana Smith Bautista, United States
  • The artist in crisis : the artist embracing society / Demian Flores, Mexico
  • Museum freefall : excerpts from a long conversation at the Getty Museum / Fred Wilson and David Wilson, United States
  • A mountain of broken mirrors : museums with a social approach / Marco Barrera Bassols, Mexico
  • The planet's flatulence and the likelihood of our extinction / Alejandro de Ávila B., Mexico
  • Chapter Four
  • Renewal
  • Reflection, renewal, and rebirth / Selma Holo and Mari-Tere Álvarez, United States
  • A new vision for a treasured Canadian institution and the opportunities and challenges we face along the way / James D. Fleck with Nichole Anderson, Canada
  • What's the big idea? Rethinking the permanent collection / Graham W.J. Beal, United States
  • Reimagining access to the Met / Thomas P. Campbell, United States
  • Rethinking immigrant integration in the American South: can museums help communities address a major social challenge? / Tom Hanchett, United States
  • A rebirth: the (new) Nevada Museum of Art, a museum of ideas / JoAnne S. Northrup and William Fox, United States
  • Reenvisioning children and families into the museum : arts for NexGen, LACMA / Jane Burrell and Karen Satzman, United States
  • 100 years later : the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County reactivated and reimagined / Jane G. Pisano, United States
  • Reinvention : collector as custodian / Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Venezuela
  • Tales from the Ibero-American Museum Network : realigning the power / Santiago Palomero Plaza, Spain
  • Realigning Mexican museums in today's world : some proposals for communication, development, and evaluation of our museum institutions / Miguel Fernández Félix, Mexico
  • Creating your own conversations in a panarchy of museums
  • Our writers: a PanAmerican highway.

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