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Registrar’s Postcard: Barcelona, Spain
Barcelona is a city that wears art like a cloak and crown. Here, art and museums are under your feet and everywhere you look. At the National Museum of Catalonian Art, on the peak of Montjuic, visitors...
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Reacting to Objects: Mindfulness, Tech and Emotion
There’s been a lot of discussion about mindful looking and unplugging in museums of late. By pure coincidence, I’ve been thinking about looking at objects while traveling over the last 2 months,...
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Registrar’s Postcard: Florence, Italy
I’m still processing all the museums I visited in Florence. One thing that stood out was the popularity of in-gallery videos, explaining how a type of work was created or conserved. These included...
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Flip Flopping Art History
I often feel held at a distance when viewing objects in museums. I want to step into a painting and experience a space or the company of an interesting person, but can only stand transfixed, trying to...
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Looking and Wonder at the Venice Biennale
I had a wondrous museum experience at the Venice Biennale. It felt like walking through another world built by collective imagination. It played in my mind for a week afterwards. This year’s Biennale...
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The Art of Online Grief
I’ve taken my social media relationships on the road with me this year and long-term travel has accelerated their development. Some people I’ve connected with have become important to me. I knew Hasan...
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Registrar’s Postcard: Prado Museum, Spain
I went Easter egg hunting at the Prado Museum during my flying visit last month. Artist Miguel Angel Blanco has placed objects from Spanish scientific collections alongside major artworks. The project,...
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Objects of Remembrance: a Networked Us and Photos of Art
During my brief return to Australia, I’ve repeatedly explained how strongly my journeys have been shaped by social media. Many times, my path has been directed by social media connections and at other...
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Museum Advocacy in Practice: Digital Invasions
The Digital Invasions concept came to Sydney last Saturday, 3 May. Despite the weather, six of us headed to the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia) and the Lucy Osburn-Nightingale...
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How to Get to Know a Collection (and Fast)?
This time last year, I travelled into Rome by train while having a conversation with Tim Sherratt in Canberra. Tim had built a Twitter bot enabling the Trove historic newspaper database to talk....
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