Museum exhibitions and the dynamics of dialogue

Daedalus

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 83-107

  McLean, Kathleen ^a  

^a Center for Public Exhibition at the Exploratorium   (United States)

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References (30)

1. Kenneth Hudson, Museums of Influence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), 23.
2. Although Duncan Cameron first juxtaposed the notions of temple and forum in the early 1970s, museum professionals still struggle with these dynamics today. See Duncan Cameron, "The Museum, A Temple or the Forum," Curator XIV (1) (1971): 11-24;
3. for a description of one museum's metaphorical scope, see George MacDonald and Stephen Alsford, A Museum for the Global Village (Hull, Quebec: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1989).
4. John Falk, "Visitors: Toward a Better Understanding of Why People Go to Museums," Museum News 77 (2) (1999): 38-40.
5. Barbara Y. Newsom and Adele Z. Silver, eds., The Art Museum as Educator (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978), 77.
6. In conversation with the author.
7. Not all art museums are adverse to visitor research, and several, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn, the Denver Art Museum, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, have embraced it as an essential element of museum practice on some level.
8. For more information on time spent in museums and exhibitions, see Beverly Serrell, Paying Attention: Visitors and Museum Exhibitions (Washington, D.C.: American Association of Museums, 1998).
9. Sheldon Annis, "The Museum as Staging Ground for Symbolic Action," Museum 151 38 (3) (1986): 170.
10. Newsom and Silver, eds., The Art Museum as Educator, 37.
11. Albert E. Parr, "Curatorial Functions in Education," Curator VI (4) (1963): 290.
12. Robert Sullivan, in conversation with the author, March 1993.
13. Frank Oppenheimer, "A Rationale for a Science Museum," Curator XI (3) (1968): 206-209.
14. Edwin Schlossberg, The Learning Environment for the Brooklyn Children's Museum (Brooklyn, N. Y.: Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1975), 24.
15. Michael Kimmelman, "Culture and Race: Still on America's Mind," New York Times, 19 November 1995, p. 1, sec. 2.
16. John Neuhart, Marilyn Neuhart, and Ray Eames, Eames Design: The Work of the Office of Charles and Ray Eames (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1989), 254-259. The exhibition is still on view today at the Boston Museum of Science.
17. "Exhibition Group Formed," Exhibitionist, October 1981.
18. Ivan Karp and Steven D. Lavine, eds., Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991).
19. Stephen Greenblatt, "Resonance and Wonder," in Karp and Lavine, Exhibiting Cultures, 42.
20. Stephen Greenblatt, Exhibiting Cultures, Ibid., 54.
21. Stephen Greenblatt, Exhibiting Cultures, 54. Ibid.
22. From a Smithsonian Institution press release, December 1990.
23. From the exhibition catalog, February 1992.
24. Ivan Karp and Fred Wilson, "Constructing the Spectacle of Culture in Museums," in Reesa Greenberg, Bruce W. Ferguson, and Sandy Nairne, eds., Thinking about Exhibitions (London: Routledge, 1996), 256.
25. Susan Vogel, "Always True to the Object, in Our Fashion," in Karp and Lavine, Exhibiting Cultures, 198.
26. The exhibition was on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from March 14 through June 1, 1999. For more information, see the catalog: Kynaston McShine, The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1999).
27. American Association of Museums, Excellence and Equity: Education and the Public Dimension of Museums (Washington, D.C.: American Association of Museums, 1992), 11-12.
28. Heather MacDonald, "Revisionist Lust: The Smithsonian Today," The New Criterion 15 (9) (1997): 17-31.
29. Kathleen McLean, Planning for People in Museum Exhibitions (Washington, D.C.: Association of Science-Technology Centers, 1993), 37.
30. From an invitation to the president's opening reception, 9 December 1998.