Heard around the Commons:

• The Swedish National Heritage Board posts some welcoming stats about their new Commons account!
• They also receive favorable press!
• The Brooklyn Museum gets press about the Sun.K Kwak installation that opens today.
• Effie, at the Smithsonian Institution, discusses the effort the Commons as a collective made for Women’s Day.
• The Oregon State University is also blogging about their Commons women.
• Tags in Space! A great read about an astronomy project the National Maritime Museum is involved in on Flickr.
• The Library of Congress boasts about their historic Stevie Wonder concert. View the webcast!
• Paula at the Powerhouse Museum informs us about hi-res zooming on their digital archives.
• Happy 75th birthday to the John Oxley Library, part of the State Library of Queensland, Australia!
• Tony Bannon, Director of the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, is in California this coming week for the Palm Springs Photo Festival, and hopes to see you there!
• The Bibliothèque de Toulouse reviews Phillippe Lioret’s new film, Welcome.
• The New Curator discusses the Tate’s collection and Google Street View; OK, that’s not about the Commons, but it is cool, and might inspire someone to do something similar using the Flickr API, the Commons photos, and Street View. Any takers?

Go Visit!

Opens today – Sun K. Kwak’s Enfolding 280 Hours installation at the Brooklyn Museum. That’s a lot of tape! View it large.

Sun K. Kwak Enfolding 280 Hours
Brooklyn Museum

30/31 March - A two-day symposium on the history and impact of the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s, at the Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery.

02 Apr - Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney to lecture on Cherry Blossom Symbolism at the Library of Congress.

Closing 05 April – Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection at the Brooklyn Museum.

Tags: Bibliothèque de Toulouse, Brooklyn Museum, George Eastman House, Library of Congress, Oregon State University Archives, Powerhouse Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Photography Initiative, State Library of Queensland Australia, Swedish National Heritage Board

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