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Open access to collections is a no-brainer – it’s a clear-cut extension of any museum’s mission [Apollo] Rijksmuseum

Open access to collections is a no-brainer – it’s a clear-cut extension of any museum’s mission [Apollo]

In the face of growing public expectation and the dominance of commercial internet platforms, staying visible and relevant online is a pressing challenge for cultural heritage institutions. As Merete Sanderhoff, a curator at the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, has written, ‘Today’s cultural user is not satisfied with being a…
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June 8, 2020
The mural will not be whitewashed: How dissident poet Joseph Brodsky continues to inspire free-thinking Russians Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The mural will not be whitewashed: How dissident poet Joseph Brodsky continues to inspire free-thinking Russians

Screen shot from Alexei Navalny's YouTube channel showing how Brodsky's graffiti is painted over in white on May 25, 2020. The 80th anniversary of the birth of Russian poet and Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky was marked this year in Russia by an incident on May 25 highlighting the special place writers…
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June 8, 2020