September 30th, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein
If you are a fan of the The Commons on Flickr and live in the NYC area, come to our Common Ground meetup this weekend to celebrate—we’ve got tons and tons of neato stuff to give away! The folks from the NYPL are going to be joining us to meet and greet and answer questions about the...
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September 8th, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein
Are you a fan of the materials being uploaded to the Flickr Commons? Well, we are huge fans and that got a few of us wondering about a way to thank the community of people who’ve rallied around our materials by tagging, commenting, investigating and looking. Paula Bray (Powerhouse) was...
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July 5th, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein
We’ve been so jealous of @museummodernart for so long because they’ve had multiple visits from Monkey and we’ve had none. We watched as Monkey got famous and took in Shakespeare in the Park, the High Line, the AIC—all the time hoping Monkey would one day cross the river to...
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January 12th, 2009 by Deirdre Lawrence
Seeing the response to historic photographs that we have posted on Flickr Commons begs a look back on why we have these images and who created them. Being an art museum library and archives our mission is to collect and make accessible research collections that serve to document the objects held in...
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December 18th, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein
You may have read about the departure of George Oates in the media, but if not check out Seb’s blog post on the subject for starters. The thing that I worried about most with George’s absence was the idea that our cheerleader—the person who had a very personal connection to each...
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