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Sometimes thing go as planned.\u00a0 Sometimes not.\u00a0 The session with David Little (curator of photography) this morning did not go as planned.\u00a0 For whatever reason we had an hour to spare, wandering the wonderful Bergman exhibition as Bill Bomash teased out clues to the stories behind the photographs.\u00a0 A young girl, wanting to talk about her experience, joined the group and added her observations.\u00a0 Who’s to say that was wasted time?<\/p>\n
David Little comes out of a museum educators background and has a real feel for what is useful to docents.\u00a0 He showed some new acquisitions including a surprise by Ansel Adam, a surrealist shot of a scissors and thread.\u00a0 We also wandered into the 55 degree refrigerator, larger than a large meat locker, where the MIA stores it’s 11,500 photographs.\u00a0 Cool, man.<\/p>\n
He also talked about how he makes curatorial decisions, relationships with dealers and photographers, in particular as it relates to borrowing objects.\u00a0 In the contemporary art and photography realm shows need relevance and he finds working with dealers and photographers much more expeditious than working with museums where the decision turn around for a loan can take as much as a year.<\/p>\n
He and Liz Armstrong, the new contemporary arts curator, have a commitment to collecting and exhibiting work being made now and in the recent past.\u00a0 The two of them, as well as Kaywin Feldman, have brought a fresh energy and verve to the whole museum and I, for one, am glad.\u00a0 Not that the old museum was bad, it wasn’t, but the new folks have juiced things up, creating new ways to view and understand art.<\/p>\n
We finished up with David Little over lunch.\u00a0 He promised to get us some bibliography and to develop more in depth photography ed as new exhibitions are hung.\u00a0 A good event with the timing slightly off.\u00a0 The quality of the contact with David was high.\u00a0 Thanks, Lisa.<\/p>\n
Kate and I had a guy, Glenn, come up tonight and give us a presentation and bid on creating a water feature by the patio.\u00a0 He seems to know his stuff and have a sensible plan to give us what we want.<\/p>\n
Been fighting this same damned virus I had a month or so ago.\u00a0 Kate says having clusters of illnesses is not unusual in that the body can retain a reservoir of the virus or bacteria.\u00a0 Your body builds up antibodies and knocks it out at some point.\u00a0 At least this time I have not had the pink eye or the ear infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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