“Art Collecting” in Byzantium

Introducing Books/ Iranian Art: Collecting Iranian Art Pieces for Victoria and Albert Museum, Mohammad Javad Ahmadinia

Collecting Aboriginal Art in the Australian Nation: Two Case Studies

Visual Anthropology Review, Volume 21, Issues 1 and 2, pages 116-137, ISSN 1053-7147, online ISSN 1548-7458. ©2006 by the American Anthropological Association, all rights reserved. Send requests for permission to reprint to: Rights and Permissions, University of California Press; Journals Division; 2000 Center Street, Suite 303; Berkeley, CA 94704-1223. By now, it is well known that Aboriginal ...

Participatory Art Museum: Collecting and Modeling Crowd Opinions

We collect public opinions on museum artworks using online crowdsourcing techniques. We ask two research questions. First, do crowd opinions on artworks differ from expert interpretations? Second, how can museum manage large amount of crowd opinions, such that users can efficiently retrieve useful information? We address these questions through opinion modeling via semantic embedding and dimens...

Holistic Healing in Byzantium Epistemologies and Methodologies

The tradition of healing in Orthodox Christianity emphasizes the human being as a psychosomatic unity. In Western society, however, the practice of healing is often separated into disciplines that independently address the body, the mind, and the soul. Orthodox Christian physicians, psychologists, and religious leaders trained in Western institutions may therefore find a conflict between modern...

The passionate economy of graffiti and street art Building social cohesion through art collecting

This study examines how social cohesion is built through exchange of urban art. Graffiti and street art are treated like dirt and washed away. Unsanctioned art is often perceived as alien to museums and private homes. Despite this, many graffiti and street artists produce art in studios that are sold in galleries as urban art. Through ethnographic tools and site visits to homes of collectors in...