Opinion
We’ve seen an increase in online programming as museums close to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. One arts administrator ponders how we can maintain this accessibility, and how it is colored by race and class.
News
Using the hashtag #MuseumsThankHealthHeroes, institutions are sharing artworks related to medical workers.
News
“Nationwide, our museums are losing at least $33 million a day due to closures as a result of COVID-19,” explains a letter to House and Senate Leaders by museum association leaders.
News
If you’re feeling hungry for art while you’re stranded at home, here are our 12 selections out of 2,500 world-class museums and galleries that are now offering virtual tours and online collections.
Art
A colloquium at the NYU Steinhardt School plumbs the potential of art institutions to make an impact on immigrant lives.
Art
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
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
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
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 renovation aims to be big enough to not only hold the institution’s art, but its promises.
News
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
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.