June 3 – 4, 2009
Collective Imagination 2009
The International TMS Users' Conference
Amsterdam
This year's theme: Community and Content
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Conservation

Matters in Media Art is a multi-phase project designed to provide guidelines for care of time-based media works of art (e.g., video, film, audio and computer based installations). The project was created in 2003 by a consortium of curators, conservators, registrars and media technical managers from New Art Trust, MoMA, SFMOMA and Tate. The consortium launched its first phase, on loaning time-based media works, in 2004, and its second phase, on acquiring time-based media works, in 2007. Interested? Check out the site.

Exhibitions

Anatomy of an Exhibition Web presentation on the National Gallery of Art website is worth a look. This site offers a glimpse behind the scenes during the planning and construction of an exhibition (2000/2001) at the National Gallery of Art, Art Nouveau, 1890-1914, the largest and most comprehensive exhibition on the subject ever organized.

Loans

Established in 1993 with generous funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Museum Loan Network strives to make objects of cultural heritage more accessible to the public by encouraging collecting institutions to share these works over extended periods of time. The MLN now maintains a directory of 20,000 artifacts available for long-term loan from 400 participating institutions. In addition to providing information on lendable objects, the MLN directory acts as a means of connecting museum professionals all around the country, encouraging collaborations between collecting institutions. Read more on the MLN website.