Highly Recommended: CRC Staff Picks from This Month’s “Virtual Mailbag”

[Our hardworking staff  continues to curate and build their list of new things worth reading on the Web — as well as in the analogue world. – Ed.]

Naomi S. Baron. Redefining Reading: The Impact of Digital Communication Media. PMLA, 128.1, January 2013.

Robert Darnton. The National Digital Public Library is Launched! The New York Review of Books, April 2013.

Julia Floberg and Alan S. Brown.  Engaging College Students in the Performing Arts: Case Studies in Good Practice. Research Commissioned by the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College. May 2013 [Montclair State University’s ACP-RAUL “Creative Campus” project is featured; see  study no.4]

Kenneth Goldsmith. UbuWeb. [“Archiving is the new folk art…Our relationship to the cultural artifact has shifted in this age of insane abundance.”]

David Greene. Invitation to a Dialogue: The Art of Teaching. The New York Times, April 30, 2013.

The Journal of Emerging Learning Design. Issue 1. April, 2013. [Montclair State University]

Eric R. Kandel. The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind and Brain. New York: Random House, 2012.

Elka Krajewska. Salvage Art Institute.  [“…a term borrowed from the art insurance lexicon, refers to work removed from art circulation due to accidental damage.”]

Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light at The Museum of Modern Art. [On view through June 24 – a must-see.]

Timothy Van Laar and Leonard Diepeveen. Artworld Prestige: Arguing Cultural Value. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.