Laura Raicovich - Hyperallergic (Page 3)

Interview

One Museum’s Complicated Attempt to Repatriate a “Benin Bronze”

The RISD Museum has held this Benin bronze head in its collection for 80 years. "No one would have given it up unless under duress," the curators say. But tracing its provenance and repatriating it is no simple matter.

Opinion

Rethinking the "Bigger Is Better" Museum Model

Current museum expansions are hung up on the concept of size. Instead, could we rethink the “grow or die” museum mentality of the 1990s and 2000s?

Art

An Animated Teaching Tool That Breaks Down How Criticism and Ideology Work

“(Some of) The Mechanics of Critique” is an instructional video by Lisi Raskin that unpacks how Enlightenment Era philosophies and epistemologies affect how we engage with the world around us.

Art

Inside the Studios of Four Artists at the Eyebeam Residency Program

Here's what I learned from an intimate studio visit where these artists showed me their process, vision, and the goals fueling their work.

Art

Curators Reveal Their Favorite Wall Colors for Showing Art

Nine curators share their favorite wall colors — a decision that constructs a sensibility for an exhibition, echoing around the artworks on view.

Art

The Narrowing of Museum Imagination

This is the first article in a series by Laura Raicovich, the recipient of Hyperallergic’s inaugural Journalism Fellowship for Curators, made possible by Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation. Today, she connects Anand Giridharadas’s latest book on philanthropy and late-capitalism with useful questions abo