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The
Relevant
Art
Museum:
Views
on
the
role
of
a
21st
century
museum
by
Saara
Helena
Liikanen-‐Renger
_____________________________________________________________________
A
Thesis
Presented
to
the
FACULTY
OF
USC
GRADUATE
SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY
OF
SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA
In
Partial
Fulfillment
of
the
Requirements
for
the
Degree
MASTER
OF
ARTS
(SPECIALIZED
JOURNALISM)
May
2013
Copyright
2013
Saara
Helena
Liikanen-‐Renger
Object Description
| Title | The relevant art museum: views on the role of a 21st century museum |
| Author | Liikanen-Renger, Saara Helena |
| Author email | liikanen@usc.edu;helena.liikanen@gmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Specialized Journalism |
| School | Annenberg School for Communication |
| Date defended/completed | 2013-04-20 |
| Date submitted | 2013-04-20 |
| Date approved | 2013-04-22 |
| Restricted until | 2013-04-22 |
| Date published | 2013-04-22 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Anawalt, Sasha |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Hernandez, Robert Holo, Selma |
| Abstract | This thesis explores the role and relevance of art museums in todays’ society through nine online video interviews with Californian museum directors, programmers and a curator, as well as, architects and other experts. These videos live on a website I have created, The Relevant Art Museum. ❧ My interest in the subject of museum relevance began when I moved from Finland to Los Angeles for ten months on a fellowship for a Master’s degree program at USC Annenberg’s School of Journalism. In Finland, recent public debate had been raging over whether or not Helsinki should acquire a Guggenheim museum. When I landed in Los Angeles in August 2012, the local art world there, too, was in turmoil because the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) had just forced the resignation of its long-time chief curator, Paul Schimmel. Even though the two discussions seemed at first worlds apart, I realized there were many commonalities – one of them being the question of museums’ “raison d’être.” ❧ The relevance of a cultural institution is hard to measure, as it means different things for different museums depending on their mission, audience and location. For this project I chose to look through the lens of Southern California. California is home for 135,000 arts-related businesses, organizations and institutions (Americans for the Arts 2012). In comparison to Finland, Southern Californian museums experiment a lot with audience engagement and offer a wide range of public programming from yoga classes to concerts in order to acquire and sustain relevance. Of the nine interviewees, most do not view the art in their museums as a sufficient public program. Most believe that it is their obligation as museums to provide additional services surrounding their exhibitions and permanent collections that contribute toward making their museums essential to civic and public life. By asking people to participate in a variety of activities, California museums hope to be effective institutionally for adding value to people’s lives. ❧ In alignment with the museums I have covered in this journalism thesis project, I too invite the audience to participate. Visitors to my website may comment and share their views, as well as add to and follow its Pinterest board created in collaboration with the existing Pinterest users. The Internet and social media extend the journalism story, and enhance the visit to museums by collecting and sharing relevant – as well as random – information. |
| Keyword | museums; relevance; |
| Language | English |
| Format (imt) | application/pdf |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Liikanen-Renger, Saara Helena |
| Physical access | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-LiikanenRe-1571.pdf |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume7/etd-LiikanenRe-1571.pdf |
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| Full text | The Relevant Art Museum: Views on the role of a 21st century museum by Saara Helena Liikanen-‐Renger _____________________________________________________________________ A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (SPECIALIZED JOURNALISM) May 2013 Copyright 2013 Saara Helena Liikanen-‐Renger |
