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Opening Up Museums

I really enjoy Nina Simon's blog, and her recent talk is especially exciting: Museum 2.0: Opening Up Museums: My TEDxSantaCruz Talk. With an upcoming year-long exhibition highlighting the 125-year history of Teachers College, EdLab designers are focused on eliciting "audience" participation in our exhibition environment – three floors of Russell Hall (nearly 30,000 sq. ft.!). …

Posted 3 months ago by Brian Hughes

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Drawing and an Argument for its Autonomy

Should the ability to draw be seen as a literacy? Is it sensible to characterize the act of drawing as the reduction of  multi- dimensional events to readable two-dimensional imagery? Last Thursday I was lucky to attend a lecture and conversation by Professors Stephen Farthing and Simon Betts on "The Bigger Picture of Drawing: A New Curriculum …

Posted 19 months ago by Brian Hughes

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Richard Eldridge Day

The first chapter to Richard Eldridge's An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art provided a good basis for discussion in class last week. He really shows off his interest in Romanticism, and his leanings towards a Pragmatic philosophy of art. We talked about the problem of "not having a perfect philosophy," located some philosophizing …

Posted 20 months ago by Brian Hughes

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Philosophy as History

This afternoon I had the honor of working with Art Education students in Teachers College's Instep program – thinking about John Dewey's legacy and impact on art education. As preparation for the lecture and group activity (collaboratively writing philosophies of art education), we read: Ursula Niklas’ “On the Philosophy of Teaching Philosophy of Art” to …

Posted 22 months ago by Brian Hughes

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Oh -- I also have a few print copies of an essay i wrote on "hermeneutics as a meta-ethic" if anyone wants to drop by the library and pick up a copy…

Can (and should) generalists lead experts?

When does one decide to become a generalist? When did I? Seth Godin insists that "art" should play a central role in the workplace. In Linchpin, he argues that seeing work as art is not only good, but imperative. I believe, however, that Godin would be better off calling his linchpin a generalist rather than …

Posted 36 months ago by Brian Hughes

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A virtual exhibition that makes you want more

I haven't been to the MOMA in a while, but I just found the James Ensor Exhibition website which more or less offers a 'virtual' version of the show (and serves as a rich online ad). I felt it gave me a ton of information, and also made me want to go to the real …

Posted 46 months ago by Brian Hughes

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Gauguin’s artistic quest to achieve moral excellence

The following excerpt is from an unpublished essay on Gauguin (the artist) and Genius (the concept). First explored in a chapter in my doctoral dissertation, my argument is that Gauguin was a highly moral person – in spite of his sometimes reckless and irresponsible actions. I think this is an important counterintuitive case, for it …

Posted 68 months ago by Brian Hughes

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Cheating is the pedagogy of the internet

I ran across this fun and informative lecture by Jon Ippolito discussing various tensions between cultural production (in general) and the current culture of intellectual property law – where he introduces his idea that "cheating is the pedagogy of the internet." It's the written version of a lecture he gave at Columbia University a few …

Posted 84 months ago by Brian Hughes

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Jay, thanks for reading and taking the time to comment…