What did Tom Krens do the day after he announced his imminent departure from the directorship of the Guggenheim Foundation?
He lectured at the TED2008 conference in Monterey, CA., about his vision of what museums should be. The annual conference gathers thinkers in a wide variety of fields and bills itself as “a chance to mentally recharge. A chance to step back and consider the really big stuff that’s happening. A chance to understand life in a richer way.”
Those all sound like good things to do when you’re about to leave the job you had for 20 years.
Krens participated Thursday on the “Is Beauty Truth” panel, which also included Target’s favorite fashion designer, Isaac Mizrahi. What, no Armani?
Boing Boing live-blogged Krens’ talk here. Among Tom’s Boing-ed comments:
Museums should be agents of agitation, social information and cultural change.
Is THAT what the Krensian Guggenheim was all about?
Also at TED, Curtis Wong unveiled his latest project, the WorldWide Telescope, to be available from Microsoft this spring. It failed to wow the TED crowd, though, if the comments published beneath the above-linked promotional video are any indication.