Audio guides from Jewish Museum exhibitions now streaming. — We are living in a post-app digital world. In 2010, Apple trademarked the phrase “there’s an app for that,” which was used in a commercial for the iPhone. Since then, it really does seem like there is an app for almost everything, including every art museum. …

The Jewish Museum just wrapped up its year of design with a trifecta of exhibitions that began in March 2016 with Isaac Mizrahi: An Unruly History, followed by Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist last fall, and ending with Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design, which concluded last week. It’s been…

A year into my position as Director of Digital at the Jewish Museum of New York, I wrote this essay on digital minimalism now published in…

Essay for Surface exhibition at Mana Contemporary (2017) — The history of art has long been propelled by disruptions of technology that have informed new aesthetics. …

How many projects have been delayed or abandoned by artists, scholars, and museum professionals because of copyright concerns? …

Since 1997, the annual Museums & the Web conference has assembled museum technologists from the around world to discuss the best digital work being done in art, science, and cultural heritage museums, and to discuss the impact of new technologies on the field. The conversation, as one might imagine, has…

Earlier this year, the New York Times ran a story on the great divide between the art and technology sectors in New York. The art galleries of Chelsea and technology start-ups setting up shop around the Google mother ship may be close in physical proximity, yet the article claimed that…

In 1896, the American steel industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie launched the Carnegie International, a regularly occurring survey exhibition of global contemporary art. He had three goals: to educate and inspire the citizens of Pittsburgh and the country at large by exposing them to the best examples of international contemporary…

In case you missed my last post, we established that museums have a lot of catching up to do in order to reach a new generation of native digital users — people who openly consume culture and publications online, and are heavily invested in the economy of sharing. With sites…