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Why Do Herbariums Still Fascinate Us? 

by Sarah Rose Sharp January 18, 2023January 18, 2023

Collecting Nature: The History of the Herbarium and Natural Specimens offers a collection of collections, a satisfying glimpse into the age-old practice.

Posted inBooks

Why Early Modern European Artists Were Obsessed With Shells

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford August 24, 2021August 24, 2021

From Leonardo to Rembrandt, artists were drawn to these soft and glowing forms.

Posted inArt

An Exhibition of Gordon Parks’s Photography Suggests New Roles for African-American Collectors

by Jewels Dodson June 26, 2019June 27, 2019

An exhibition of Gordon Parks’s photography at Harvard University’s Ethelbert Cooper Gallery highlights the unique role that Kasseem Dean is attempting to carve out as collector of Black art.

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University Eliminates Two Scientific Collections to Make Way for Stadium Renovations

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 30, 2017March 30, 2017

Two scientific collections at the University of Louisiana at Monroe (ULM) are being divested to make way for renovations of the campus track stadium.

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The Best Way to Collect Contemporary Art: Patiently and Passionately

Avatar photo by John Seed March 3, 2015

When art and commerce mix, a certain level of mania is inevitable: it’s what you get when passion and pragmatism collide.

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The Collections Behind Great Artists

by Laura C. Mallonee December 10, 2014December 14, 2014

“Artists, as we know, are notorious collectors, but you always wonder what came first, the chicken or the egg.”

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Victoria & Albert Museum Devotes Gallery to Buzzy Objects

by Jillian Steinhauer May 27, 2014May 30, 2014

For better or for worse, museums tend to be behind the times, arbitrating culture from some kind of temporal remove. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is attempting to minimize that gap with a newly announced initiative called Rapid Response Collecting.

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French Government Backs Away from Taxing Art as Wealth

by Kyle Chayka October 16, 2012

A proposal for an amendment that would tax art worth over $65,175 ran into immediate controversy in France from museums and cultural officials. The government is now backing far away from the change in the tax code, which has the potential to discourage donations of art to institutions, the Sun Daily reports.

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Collection (Not) as Curation: How Exhibitions are Different From Libraries

by Janelle Grace September 25, 2012September 29, 2012

Does an understanding of professional collecting, as is done in libraries, give us a better understanding of what’s happening on Tumblr, or at least help us better understand how we define curation? I turned to the founder and organizer of the Reanimation Library, artist and professional librarian Andrew Beccone, for his thoughts.

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