Contrary to the recognized norms of museum building and fundraising, NWHM has obtained little in the way of support from major foundations.
On the Mall, where white Tennessee marble is the norm, Adjaye's museum will present a striking contrast.
This cannot be sustained in the short term but will be built to being the norm when the museum has a dedicated special exhibition space".
Whether visitors basked in the virtual warmth of Olafur Eliasson's fake sun in his "Weather Project," or laid themselves upon Ai Weiwei's field of 100 million hand-painted porcelain sunflower seeds (until the dust stirred up was decreed a health hazard), the collective, interactive experience of these artworks has generated its own momentum and a new set of norms for the museum-going experience.
Curators now monitor temperature and relative humidity in museums [3] and follow norms and recommendations [4] to address this issue.
"It was unique in that scent was foregrounded and it was explicitly nonvisual, which is not the norm for a museum environment, but it really worked.
I am in a place, personally, where I feel we should be challenging old systems and norms, the institutions, the museums, the venue owners, the politicians, the system itself.
These so-called "preventative" or "phased" conservation measures became the norm in the library and museum conservation world, Mr. Harris said.
The gallery's non-traditional partnerships, which blur long-established art world norms that keep market-driven galleries and museum businesses separate at least on the surface have also allowed public life in Detroit to benefit in other ways, too.
The convention succeeded in establishing new international norms, but as demonstrated in these pages, many museums have been slow to comply.
