The Pop-Up Museum:
(n.) An exhibition about the past and future of the Gowanus Canal and the museum. Opens March 3 at Observatory.
(v.) An experiment in site-specific space activation, constructing potential futures using primary documents.
What should/can the Gowanus become? How are we becoming-Gowanus?
And what would a museum about this process look like? For eight weeks, we're going to explore these and other questions.

Mr. Guy painted (at least) two winter scenes of Brooklyn. One is at the Brooklyn Museum, the other now at Crystal Bridges.

some great city/nature/art/history blogging from Oakland.

Portraits of "skilled tradespeople dressed in work clothes and carrying the tools of their occupations." Excellent exhibition.

betting paintings on the super bowl

one of the "big 3" mexican muralists. museum of his work to open in LA in 2010

"six-month research program being inaugurated early next month at the Museum of Modern Art" to design four 'soft' interventions to address climate change in Upper NY Bay

First exhibition, in the currently un-renovated building. Note that the building has been empty for the better part of a decade. (photos by metroblossom)

Best news from the western front of gentrification in quite a while: "The National Public Housing Museum would be built in a 70-year-old, vacant building at 1322-24 W. Taylor St., the last remaining building from the Depression-era Jane Addams Homes."

SANAA NM gets a glowing review. However: "the New Museum may have left SoHo, but it is powerless to prevent SoHo from following it to the Bowery."

yes, this website is © 1996. it's beautiful.

'Museum of Pictorial Representation'

graphic of cracks in the side of the Gug

"The museum had to convince the USSR that it was not still a weapon under arms control treaties." Proof: "When the missile returned to the site, it was left on its side for 30 days, w/ holes cut in fuel tanks & nose cone, so that USSR satellites could co

We are all living within the Museum of Ephemerata.

"The exhibition “Best of Friends” will document the close friendship & shared values of R. Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi." This will finally get me out to the Noguchi Museum.

"On 4 June 1944, United States Navy Task Group 22.3 captured U-505, the first time a US Navy vessel had captured an enemy at sea since 1815." Currently at Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago

A webstats app for netart. Collects data across sites: "At the end of each month, BstatZero.org downloads to its own server the monthly results from each of the particpants." Doesn't tell you what's DONE with the data, tho. privacy? [via whitney netport

aayford's pop!

death to museum acronyms! death to inescapable flash intros!

museum of contemporary art

totally cute. an 'online museum'

contemporary art museum in Siena. Building once used as a bank; hosts special exhibits in the vault