Art
NYC Cultural Workers Consider What Museums Can Do for Immigrant Communities
A colloquium at the NYU Steinhardt School plumbs the potential of art institutions to make an impact on immigrant lives.
Museums
Art
Sustaining Art in the Midst of Venezuela's Humanitarian Crisis
If President Nicolás Maduro ever leaves Venezuela and the country can recover, art and culture must be priorities. For now, we can only encourage and support Venezuelan artists.
Art
Gauging the Possibilities of Impermanence at the New MoMA
MoMA’s recent expansion embodies the tension between the ways in which cultural spaces can offer visitors comfortable narratives and on the other, how they can suggest the potential for radical inclusiveness by iteration, reinvention, and reinstallation.
Art
Saying Goodbye to the Newseum in the Age of Fake News
It felt important to visit the Newseum 10 years ago, when every journalist I knew still believed great reporting would always win. Now, in the wake of its recent closure, the delusory nature of that kind of thinking doesn’t get any more obvious.
Art
Reimagining Museum Design, With Education at the Forefront
It's time to conceive of museums as social, educational centers with libraries, classrooms, gathering spaces where everyone — especially young people — love to hang out.
Art
The New MoMA: A Mix of Innovative Choices and Missed Opportunities
The renovation aims to be big enough to not only hold the institution’s art, but its promises.
News
Enjoy a Day of Free Admission to Hundreds of US Museums, Courtesy of the Smithsonian
On September 21, museums across the country will offer visitors free general admission tickets as part of the 15th annual Smithsonian Museum Day.
In Brief
World Spent $8 Billion on New Cultural Institutions in 2018, Report Says
North America leads in the number of newly completed or announced art museums and other cultural projects, but Asia is catching up with the world's costliest constructions.
In Brief
A New Definition of "Museum" Sparks International Debate
The International Council of Museums will vote on a new definition of museums in September. The proposed change includes language about "social justice, global equality and planetary wellbeing." Critics say the text is too political for most museums to employ.
Art
The Growing Tide Against Unpaid Internships
Internships have largely remained outside the conversation about diversity and equality in museums. Economist Richard Reeves is bent on changing that.
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?
News
Museum Workers Share Their Salaries and Urge Industry-Wide Reform
Over 660 arts professionals have added to a spreadsheet detailing their salaries. The pay for these prestigious positions may be lower than you expect.