Remix: changing conversations in museums of the Americas

Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Panarchy and the Museum Chapter One. Origins Reflecting on Origins Selma Holo and Mari-Tere Alvarez, United States What Legacy Will We Leave on These Walls? Oscar Arias Sanchez, Costa Rica A Project to Create a Peace Museum in Costa Rica: A Nation That Abolished the Army Manuel Araya-Incera, Costa Rica Rethinking the Spirit of a Museum: Atzompa Archaeological Site Nelly M. Robles Garcia, Mexico Lessons Learned in the Principles and Practice of Community Museums Cuauhtemoc Camarena and Teresa Morales, Mexico The Museum of Art of Puerto Rico, or, the Reconstitution of a History of Art Hector Feliciano, Puerto Rico Peru Does Not Need Museums Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru A Mexican National Museum in Chicago: Integrating Cultures Carlos Tortolero, United States The Multinodal Institution: Going Off the Grid Lori Starr, United States The Museum of Oaxaca Edward Rothstein, United States Chapter Two. Conserving Reflections on Conserving: Conservation and Conservatism Selma Holo and Mari-Tere Alvarez, United States Conservation, Stewardship, and the Future of AMA: Art Museum of the Americas, Part I Lydia Bendersky, Chile Stewardship and the Future of AMA: Art Museum of the Americas, Part II Andres Navia, Colombia For Whom the Human Remains? Ben Garcia, United States Reimagining an Ethical Approach to Museum Collections Stephen E. Nash and Chip Colwell, United States Small Museums and the "Cultural Revolution" in Venezuela, 2001-2012 Guillermo Barrios, Venezuela Repairing a Lost History in Rio de Janeiro: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century Piedade Grinberg, Brazil On and Off the Hill in Los Angeles: Making Connections and Making a Difference Clare Kunny, United States Art and Beyond: Some Contemporary Challenges for Art and Anthropology Museums Ivan Gaskell, United States A Museum Is a Museum Is a Museum Is a Museum: Museums and Networks Vanda Vitali, Canada Chapter Three. Uncertainty Reflecting on Uncertainty and Reform Selma Holo and Mari-Tere Alvarez, United States Freeing Up Art Museums Maxwell L. Anderson, United States The Arts and Citizens in Transition: A Case Study from the Pulitzer Kristina Van Dyke, United States The Contemporary Museum in a New Creative Agenda Richard Koshalek and Erica Clark, United States A New "Place" for Museums in the Digital Age Susana Smith Bautista, United States The Artist in Crisis: The Artist Embracing Society Demian Flores, Mexico Museum Freefall: Excerpts from a Long Conversation at the Getty Museum Fred Wilson and David Wilson, United States A Mountain of Broken Mirrors: Museums with a Social Approach Marco Barrera Bassols, Mexico The Planet's Flatulence and the Likelihood of Our Extinction Alejandro de Avila B., Mexico Chapter Four. Renewal Reflection, Renewal, and Rebirth Selma Holo and Mari-Tere Alvarez, United States A New Vision for a Treasured Canadian Institution and the Opportunities and Challenges We Face along the Way James D. Fleck with Nichole Anderson, Canada What's the Big Idea? Rethinking the Permanent Collection Graham W. J. Beal, United States Reimagining Access to the Met Thomas P. Campbell, United States Rethinking Immigrant Integration in the American South: Can Museums Help Communities Address a Major Social Challenge? Tom Hanchett, United States A Rebirth: Th e (New) Nevada Museum of Art, a Museum of Ideas JoAnne S. Northrup and William Fox, United States Reenvisioning Children and Families into the Museum: Arts for NexGen, LACMA Jane Burrell and Karen Satzman, United States 100 Years Later: Th e Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Reactivated and Reimagined Jane G. Pisano, United States Reinvention: Collector as Custodian Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Venezuela Tales from the Ibero-American Museum Network: Realigning the Power Santiago Palomero Plaza, Spain Realigning Mexican Museums in Today's World: Some Proposals for Communication, Development, and Evaluation of Our Museum Institutions Miguel Fernandez Felix, Mexico Creating Your Own Conversations in a Panarchy of Museums Our Writers: A Pan-American Highway Contributors