slowking
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Lori Phillips
<lori.byrd.phillips(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
*Cross-posted with glam-l, cultural partners, and
com-com.*
I'm proud to say that WikiProject: Public Art, which was my gateway into
the world of Wikipedia back in the fall of 2009, has received coverage in
the New York Times Arts Beat blog. Richard McCoy, conservator of objects at
the Indianapolis Museum of Art, has been pulling together the resources for
a project surrounding the documentation of Tony Smith artworks in Wikipedia
(using WP:Public Art), which is the focus of the piece.
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/project-enlists-the-public-to-…
Let me know if you have any interest or further questions about this
initiative. I'll put you in contact with Richard.
Best,
Lori
Project Enlists the Public to Document Outdoor Sculpture by Tony SmithBy RANDY
KENNEDY <http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/author/randy-kennedy/>
Art conservation can be a rarefied field, but a new project being
announced by the North American branch of the International Network for
the Conservation of Contemporary Art <http://incca-na.org/> is taking a
decidedly populist approach.
The group, which promotes collaboration among professional conservators,
artists and collectors, has started a program in which members of the
public are being asked to help locate, document and photograph outdoor
sculptures made by the Minimalist artist Tony
Smith<http://www.matthewmarks.com/new-york/artists/tony-smith/>h/>,
who created more than 100 such pieces. While many of the sculptures are in
public spaces and are well-known, there is no complete inventory of the
sites or condition of outdoor works by Mr. Smith, who died in 1980. (Sept.
23 will be the 100th anniversary of his birth.)
And so the conservation group is asking Smith fans to take their cameras
and notebooks to “work together and complete the project by using two of
the most-visited Web sites, Wikipedia and Flickr,” to “dramatically
increase awareness about these works and therefore allow for the continued
advocacy for their proper care and maintenance.” Information collected on
the works will be organized and listed at the Wikipedia site WikiProject
Public Art <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Public_Art>
.
“We live in a world where every single one of the more than 500 television
episodes of ‘The Simpsons’ has a well-researched Wikipedia article devoted
to it, but by comparison there is practically no information about many of
the greatest artworks of the 20thcentury,” said Richard McCoy, a member
of the conservation group and a founder of WikiProject Public Art. “This
project can serve as a model and demonstrate the importance of documenting
contemporary art while highlighting the significance of one of America’s
most renowned artists.”
--
Lori Phillips
Digital Marketing Content Coordinator
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
703.489.6036 |
http://loribyrdphillips.com/
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