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Funny title, interesting article. A good round up of (relatively) recent shifts in educational practice that have strong implications for learning in the museum. It's by Anna Cutler from the Tate, who gave one of the interviews in the 'Tate Encounters', posted by Sheona below.

I think what's good about this is the way she has taken on board the recent scholarship into teaching and learning and conceptualizes public and education programs in galleries through this without thinking that it is the same thing - she looks at what is unique and where the strengths lie.

I just posted this and now realise it's old news for you all, still the article is probably worth another highlight.

Open Studio is a set of lesson ideas authored by contemporary artists for K-12 teachers. Conceived by artist Mark Bradford, it is the inaugural project of the Getty Artists Program.

Museum Motion and Emotion in the City article is interesting in that it challenges our assumptions of museum as place and suggests musem as presence as a preferable aim.

I think this is only the first page of the article but if you want to see the whole thing I have a copy I can show you.

MoMA | Do You Know Your MoMA? 06/25/2010

INSIDE/OUT is the blog of MoMA and P.S.1

Have you heard of Art Babble? This is a fantastic site for webvideos produced by art museums. SFMoMa and MoMA are some of the key producers. I think it was launched not too long ago. Some excellent videos of artists in their studios, installation videos, and lectures by artists and experts at given museum. Great for brainstorming ideas for future videos with artists....

It's super-dooper. Beautifully set out and great range of institutions. I found this on it: an introduction to the coming year's programs at the AIC by their director - fab programs and a nice way to promote them! http://www.artbabble.org/video/art-institute-director-jim-cuno-introduces-500-ways-looking-modern

You might find this interesting, good summary of what's going on.

Really interesting - thanks, Francesca. The first 10 examples are well-established, widely-used (social media, blogs, mobile apps, flickr, etc), but it gets more intriguing as you read on and see the very creative ways museums are adapting these technologies to suit their collections. LACMA (home of the Rainn Wilson 'celebrity-takes-over-our-twitter-feed) and The Walker Art Centre are particularly good. The Walker have a photo booth at their party-oriented 'After Hours' nights, and the photos go directly to flickr - very clever and fun http://calendar.walkerart.org/afterhours/index.wac