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Book SynopsisCelebrating the diversity of institutions in the United States, Latin America, and Canada, this book aims to change the discourse about museums from the inside out, proposing a new, "panarchic"-nonhierarchical and adaptive-vision for museum practice.
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Panarchy and the Museum
Chapter One. Origins Reflecting on Origins
Selma Holo and Mari-Tere Álvarez, United States
What Legacy Will We Leave on These Walls?
Óscar Arias Sánchez, Costa Rica
A Project to Create a Peace Museum in Costa Rica: A Nation That Abolished the Army
Manuel Araya-Incera, Costa Rica
Rethinking the Spirit of a Museum: Atzompa Archaeological Site
Nelly M. Robles García, Mexico
Lessons Learned in the Principles and Practice of Community Museums
Cuauhtémoc Camarena and Teresa Morales, Mexico
The Museum of Art of Puerto Rico, or, the Reconstitution of a History of Art
Héctor Feliciano, Puerto Rico
Peru Does Not Need Museums
Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru
A Mexican National Museum in Chicago: Integrating Cultures
Carlos Tortolero, United States
The Multinodal Institution: Going Off the Grid
Lori Starr, United States
The Museum of Oaxaca
Edward Rothstein, United States
Chapter Two. Conserving Reflections on Conserving: Conservation and Conservatism
Selma Holo and Mari-Tere Álvarez, United States
Conservation, Stewardship, and the Future of AMA: Art Museum of the Americas, Part I
Lydia Bendersky, Chile
Stewardship and the Future of AMA: Art Museum of the Americas, Part II
Andrés Navia, Colombia For Whom the Human Remains?
Ben Garcia, United States
Reimagining an Ethical Approach to Museum Collections
Stephen E. Nash and Chip Colwell, United States
Small Museums and the “Cultural Revolution” in Venezuela, 2001–2012
Guillermo Barrios, Venezuela
Repairing a Lost History in Rio de Janeiro: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century
Piedade Grinberg, Brazil
On and Off the Hill in Los Angeles: Making Connections and Making a Difference
Clare Kunny, United States Art and Beyond: Some Contemporary Challenges for Art and Anthropology Museums
Ivan Gaskell, United States
A Museum Is a Museum Is a Museum Is a Museum: Museums and Networks
Vanda Vitali, Canada
Chapter Three. Uncertainty
Reflecting on Uncertainty and Reform
Selma Holo and Mari-Tere Álvarez, United States
Freeing Up Art Museums
Maxwell L. Anderson, United States
The Arts and Citizens in Transition: A Case Study from the Pulitzer
Kristina Van Dyke, United States
The Contemporary Museum in a New Creative Agenda
Richard Koshalek and Erica Clark, United States
A New “Place” for Museums in the Digital Age
Susana Smith Bautista, United States
The Artist in Crisis: The Artist Embracing Society
Demian Flores, Mexico
Museum Freefall: Excerpts from a Long Conversation at the Getty Museum
Fred Wilson and David Wilson, United States
A Mountain of Broken Mirrors: Museums with a Social Approach
Marco Barrera Bassols, Mexico
The Planet’s Flatulence and the Likelihood of Our Extinction
Alejandro de Ávila B., Mexico
Chapter Four. Renewal Reflection, Renewal, and Rebirth
Selma Holo and Mari-Tere Álvarez, United States
A New Vision for a Treasured Canadian Institution and the Opportunities and Challenges We Face along the Way
James D. Fleck with Nichole Anderson, Canada
What’s the Big Idea? Rethinking the Permanent Collection
Graham W. J. Beal, United States
Reimagining Access to the Met
Thomas P. Campbell, United States
Rethinking Immigrant Integration in the American South: Can Museums Help Communities Address a Major Social Challenge?
Tom Hanchett, United States
A Rebirth: Th e (New) Nevada Museum of Art, a Museum of Ideas
JoAnne S. Northrup and William Fox, United States
Reenvisioning Children and Families into the Museum: Arts for NexGen, LACMA
Jane Burrell and Karen Satzman, United States
100 Years Later: Th e Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Reactivated and Reimagined
Jane G. Pisano, United States
Reinvention: Collector as Custodian
Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Venezuela
Tales from the Ibero-American Museum Network: Realigning the Power
Santiago Palomero Plaza, Spain
Realigning Mexican Museums in Today’s World: Some Proposals for Communication, Development, and Evaluation of Our Museum Institutions
Miguel Fernández Félix, Mexico
Creating Your Own Conversations in a Panarchy of Museums
Our Writers: A Pan-American Highway
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