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The design and implementation of appropriate museum lighting is a crucial element of both collections care and curatorial decision making. What's the difference between natural and artificial light sources and how can you use them? https://bit.ly/3stbLpx #lightmonitoring #collections #museums

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"Happy International Museum Day, art and history enthusiasts! Today, let's embark on a journey through the corridors of culture, imagination, and knowledge. 🌍✨ Museums are not just buildings filled with artifacts; they're portals to different worlds, eras, and perspectives. Let's keep exploring, discovering, and preserving the wonders of our shared heritage. 🏛️💫 #InternationalMuseumDay #MuseumMagic #ExploreLearnDiscover #digitalproworld #digitalproworldenterprises"

You should have a policy on cataloguing. This could either be a standalone document or part of a wider collections management policy. Either way, in deciding your policy you will need to consider this question: "How will you identify contemporary or historic bias within the museum's cataloguing practice?" 🔗 https://buff.ly/3SHILoW #PrimaryProcedures #MuseumDocumentation #Museums

Appraisers often rely on private sales data from dealers, highlighting the crucial role art dealers play in the art market. 🎨🌍 Dive into the pivotal role of art dealers in shaping the transatlantic art market from the late 19th to early 20th centuries! In an often overlooked perspective of the art market's history this new publication, "Money in the Air: Art Dealers and the Making of a Transatlantic Market, 1880–1930," shows how these figures not only influenced art collections but also significantly impacted the foundations of major American art museums. #ArtHistory #ArtMarket #ArtDealers 

The article discusses the impact of the NFT (non-fungible token) boom on the art industry, highlighting major art #museums’ increasing acquisition of #NFT-based artworks. The boom gained significant attention after Beeple’s digital mosaic, “Everydays,” sold for $69 million in #2021. NFTs function as certificates of ownership, creating digital scarcity and value for easily replicable digital assets. The #Whitney Museum, having acquired its first NFT in 2018, now owns 30, showcasing the industry’s shift toward digital art. Museums like MoMA in New York have accepted NFT-based works, such as “Unsupervised” and “3FACE,” as part of efforts to enhance their digital offerings. Some curators remain skeptical, keeping their distance from NFTs, while others see the boom as bringing digital art into the public eye, providing opportunities for digital artists in the traditional #art #world. The article also notes the potential future evolution of the digital art market, with curators and gallerists navigating NFT marketplaces and artworks’ values determined by critical consensus rather than cryptocurrency health. Despite a decline in prices, auction houses like #Christie’s and Sotheby’s insist on the continued growth of #digitalart artwork sales. The art world is described as being in the “stone age of the virtual turn,” with some hoping the NFT moment marks the beginning rather than the end of a trend, similar to the dotcom bubble.

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