Week-end candy

I recommend today Eurasia, a history documentary in 8 chapters, hosted and writed by Alain Moreau, and coproduced by bradcasting company NHK Japan (Japan) and Point du Jour (France) in 2004. 

The chapter 2, "The Forgotten Alexandria", shows archeological and heritage sites and work done back in the 1960s by a French team in the northern part of Afghanistan and there are impressive (and moving images) inside the completely empty museum in 2004, and scenes with curators opening, for first time in many years, to the cameras, boxes with museum materials preserved during the war times from lutters and plunders, that were selling all they could take from the rooms of the museum, then full of invaluable objects and materials.






Links for more information:
Documentary series, Eurasia
NHK Japan
Point du Jour

Practical iphone uses in the museum

I watched this visitant for sometime in the exhibit rooms and suddenly I realized she was taking a oicture of the wall and signs on it. 

and here you have a close-up of what she was shooting at: labels?  the design of signaletic?  colors?

In any case it is really, a very handy tool and more and more it is becoming indispensable in modern life, especially for professionals as a notebook.

Vicente Todoli resigned and expansion projects for Tate, examined

Still in an age of financial and economical uncertainties, though with some signs of recovery in the arts market, expansions of museums are starting to be questioned and analyzed from a conceptual point of view.  Following are two interesting articles from The Art Newspaper, about Tate's new plans of expansions already in process with the construction of the Tate Modern new annex.

Why Tate Modern needs to expand, by Sir Nicholas Serota is an article about the new Tate building to be unveild by 2012. And arts consultant Adrian Ellis writes about Ten years on: Tate Modern reaches a watershed, that analyses the situation of the expansion projects for big, international (and somehow, maybe corporate?) museums and/or art centers, on the study case of the Tate Modern.
The critic also touches slightly reasons why Vicente Todolí, exiting director of Tate Modern, is calling it finished his involvement with Tate.

A stand-by on posting

Greetings from MuseumsMore.

I am working on a some renovation of the "face" and content for this blog and future site, therefore you will  see that I am posting scarcely these weeks.  More info to come soon.

I leave you today with an image of a museum in weekend.

Rotonda at entrance. Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin