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This paper examines the patronage of First Lady Imelda Marcos at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila from 1976-1986, corresponding to her term as the museum's founding chairperson and president. It elaborates on the conflation of state and private support, motives, and interests that drove her museum patronage. Borrowing from Foucault's concept of the dispositif, this paper views the museum as a dynamic and constantly shifting field of relations, and scrutinizes its key feature – exhibitions – as articulations of Mrs. Marcos' conflated patronage unevenly dominating, contesting, aligning, and giving way to other forces and relations in the museum. The entanglement of the Metropolitan Museum of Manila with various state and personal interests, while still delivering museal public service, thrusts it in multiple roles as a modern art museum, a political instrument, and a private gallery of Imelda Marcos.KEYWORDS: museum, art patronage, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, exhibitions, art management

In its drive to make a profit and avoid copyright challenges, YouTube, the largest online video platform, is becoming a more hospitable place for news organizations that are targeting the medium's young audience with an attractive fare of raw video and light content. But this changing YouTube environment appears to be less welcoming to the politically motivated online operations that found a voice there in the 2008 presidential election. This article explores the developments and tracks the audience changes to the largest YouTube news and politics sites from just before the election through early 2010. Corporate media were found to be more successful in building large sustained audiences, while online-only operations with a political bent have lost audience share since the election and appear to be confined to a niche.

This article analyzes a significant, but little researched, form of legal involvement in the medical profession—state appellate court opinions. Analyzing 100 years of state appellate court decisions on a legal rule called the "locality rule," the author presents four distinct judicial interpretations of the rule. Each has distinctive policy implications for law and medicine pertaining to the setting of standards for professional competency in medicine. Three of the judicial interpretations provide for increasing amounts of judicial deference to the professional autonomy of the medical community. A fourth interpretation within the last decade, however, upholds a judicial prerogative for establishing standards of professional competency. The author concludes that the fourth interpretation is not an aberration and signals a change in the relationship between law and medicine for the future.

The metaphors we use can influence our behavior. This article proposes a new metaphor to help guide online instructors to more effective practices. The metaphor, gardening in cyberspace, is about creating an environment that fosters learning and personal growth. The practices of good gardening—positioning, conditioning soil, watering, and controlling weeds and pests—all serve as useful analogues to good online pedagogical practices, including addressing individual differences, motivating the student, providing feedback, and avoiding information overload. Examples of instructional design and course management techniques are included to illustrate what online instructors might do differently if they took the gardening perspective seriously. The authors also extend the metaphor to explore administration's role as gardening store proprietors.