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Being a curator was the 51st best job in 2009 The Wall Street Journal Share    
The Wall Street Journal lists the 200 best and worst jobs in the U.S. in 2009 based on five criteria — environment, income, employment outlook, physical demands and stress — according to a newly released study from job site CareerCast.com. No. 1 on the list is actuary. More
Will US museums succeed in reinventing themselves? The Art Newspaper Share
"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," Rahm Emanuel, President Obama's chief of staff likes to say. By that measure, art museums may have been handed a historic opportunity. As we all know, the Great Recession has been tough on museums, especially American ones. Layoffs, furloughs and hiring freezes have become common. Endowments shrank by up to a third during the worst of the market swoon — the larger the institution, the steeper the losses. In America, certainly, the economic downturn is hastening a realization that business-as-usual won't work anymore — and that's not necessarily a bad thing. ♦ Quotes CFM research on the future of museums. More
DePaul University exhibition explores process of paring down museum collections ArtDaily Share
The public is invited to explore the fascinating process of how an art museum decides what works to remove from its collection in "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Museum Collections and 'Deaccessioning,'" which opens this week at the DePaul University Art Museum in Chicago. The exhibition examines the process of deaccessioning, an important but seldom discussed part of forming a well-focused museum. More
Understanding 'Generation Jones' and other mini-generation gaps SmartPlanet Share
They were the baby boomers who didn't make it to Woodstock — because it would have taken them way past their bedtimes. While much has been made about the heritage of the baby boomers, who fomented the hippie counterculture and burned down draft boards, there is actually a larger segment of this cohort — their younger siblings — who more or less missed the 1960s and came of age in the following decade. More Top 10 cities with the worst commute, global edition SmartPlanet Share
If you live in New York, Los Angeles, Montreal or Paris, you might think you have the worst commute in the world. After all, most New Yorkers, Los Angelenos, Montréalais or Parisians think nothing of sitting in a cloud of smog on the way to work each morning. Guess what: Those cities didn't even break the top 10. More
Groundbreaking seven-year museum study provides unprecedented insight into visitor preferences Dallas Art News Share
A groundbreaking, seven-year study that provides unprecedented understanding of the preferences and behaviors of museum visitors has been released by the Dallas Museum of Art. The study and its findings have catalyzed fundamental changes in all aspects of the DMA's practices and programs — from exhibition and programming development to new marketing strategies and interpretation tools — leading to a 100 percent increase in attendance. More
Soft crash for the 'creative class'? BNET Share
Cities that attract hip, creative types will be the ones to prosper this century, while industrial centers that can't keep it cool will continue to fall behind. That's the thesis from Richard Florida, the public policy guru/consultant. But is a two-tiered economy (a small class of highly-paid creatives supported by a large underclass of un-unionized service sector employees) really sustainable? More
How art affects the brain The Wall Street Journal Share
At an exhibit opening this past weekend at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, visitors will be asked to wear 3-D glasses and walk around with clipboards and pencils while looking at images of sculptures. "Beauty and the Brain: A Neural Approach to Aesthetics," enlists the public as participants in a Johns Hopkins University study that looks at why the human brain is attracted to artwork. More
A fuzzy picture: US jobs projections for curators leave museum directors scratching their heads Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Share
Curators, archivists and museum technicians are among the professions projected to show "much faster than average employment growth" over the next eight years, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. But before you start applying to graduate schools with visions of devoting your life to the study and care of Rembrandts or Warhols, read on. There's good news and bad, related to our rapidly changing technological and economic states. ♦ AAM thinks that BLS undercounts the number of museums and museum professionals in the country, but the trends seem accurate. More
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