From Abraham Ritchie at Art Works:
GIA Blog
From Zoe Fox at Mashable:
Ian Padgham, former social media guru of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art says museums started flocking to social media in 2009. Museums initially used social media just to advertise events and exhibits, but quickly jumped into a world of interactive education and user generated content.
The Arts Education rock festival enters its final week on Barry's Blog with the question:
From Ariel Schwartz at Fast Company:
From Steve Lohr in The New York Times:
From Azeem Azhar, founder and CEO of Peer Index, on gigaom.com:
Poet Philip Levine is to be named the next US Poet Laureate.
“He’s the laureate, if you like, of the industrial heartland,” said James Billington, librarian of Congress. “It’s a very, very American voice. I don’t know that in other countries you get poetry of that quality about the ordinary workingman.”
Barry's second question for the policy panel:
Full details of the GIA 2011 Conference Sessions are now available from the conference website. You can now see when individual session will occur and who the presenters will be, as well as any online resources associated with them.
Violinist and MacArthur Fellow Sebastian Ruth is profiled on the String Visions website. In 1997, Ruth founded Community MusicWorks, a non-profit based in the West End neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. For fourteen years, CMW and Sebastian Ruth have empowered the lives of urban youth and families through classical music.