Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

• Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Holo, Selma
• Alvarez, Mari-Tere

Description

xi, 223 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"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 engagement. Selma Holo and Mari-Tere Álvarez offer an unconventional approach to museum studies, one premised on breaching conventional systems of communications and challenging the dialogues that drive the field. Featuring more than forty authors in and around the museum world, Remix frames a series of vital case studies demonstrating how specific museums, large and small, have profoundly advanced or redefined their goals in creative ways"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Museums > United States
• Museums > Latin America
• Museums > Canada

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

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.

Call Number

JFE 16-5631

ISBN

• 9780520284524
• 0520284526
• 9780520284531
• 0520284534
• 9780520960114 (canceled/invalid)
• 0520960114 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015035764

OCLC

921821810

Title

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

Publisher

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Holo, Selma, editor.

Alvarez, Mari-Tere, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-5631