http://amyione-online.com TRACING THE CONTOURS OF ART, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:38:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://amyione-online.com/2010/04/02/article-scale-models-of-museums-aid-designers/ http://amyione-online.com/2010/04/02/article-scale-models-of-museums-aid-designers/#comments Sat, 03 Apr 2010 01:16:47 +0000 admin http://amyione-online.com/?p=268 Great article by Kenneth Baker on how museums make models of the museum’s gallery spaces and all the objects that might appear in a given show, using foam core, balsa wood and cardboard. Paintings and photographs get miniaturized to scale using Photoshop. Read more

]]> http://amyione-online.com/2010/04/02/article-scale-models-of-museums-aid-designers/feed/ 0 http://amyione-online.com/2009/09/25/ann-fisher-collection-to-stay-in-sf/ http://amyione-online.com/2009/09/25/ann-fisher-collection-to-stay-in-sf/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:18:02 +0000 Amy Ione http://amyione-online.com/?p=17 On September 25th, SFMOMA  announced a pioneering partnership with Gap Inc. founders Doris and Don Fisher that would provide the Fisher Collection—one of the world’s leading collections of contemporary art—with a home at the museum.   The Fisher Collection includes more than 1,100 works by artists such as Alexander Calder, Chuck Close, Willem de Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn, Anselm Kiefer, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Gerhard Richter, Richard Serra, Cy Twombly, and Andy Warhol.  More information.

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