In Brief
Your New York Library Card Will Now Allow You Access to 33 City Museums
A new initiative encourages New Yorkers to use their library cards to get in free to museums across the city.
Museums
In Brief
A Museum Is Already Planned at Thai Cave Where 12 Boys were Rescued
Less than a day after rescuing trapped schoolboys and their coach from a flooded cave, Thai officials have plans to turn the whole ordeal into a museum to boost tourism in the region.
Art
What Will Be the Ripple Effects of the ICA Boston's Expansion Across the Harbor?
With its new Watershed space, the ICA has to navigate a delicate balance of bringing art into East Boston without displacing the communities and artists already there.
News
Glimpse the Orange County Museum of Art's Future and Futuristic Home
The shiny new building, designed by Morphosis Architects, will double the museum's exhibition space when it opens in 2021.
News
More Galleries Are Leaving the Contested Los Angeles Neighborhood of Boyle Heights
Chimento Contemporary and MaRS are joining the list of galleries relocating from Boyle Heights, a neighborhood long marked by gentrification tensions.
News
The World's Best-Attended Museums and Exhibitions in 2017
The Louvre remained the world's most visited museum last year, but Beijing's National Museum of China is closing the gap, with just 100,000 fewer visitors.
News
Miami's Pérez Art Museum Has Made Admission Free for Public School Students
Thanks to a Knight Foundation grant, Miami-Dade County Public School students can now visit their local art museum anytime, for free.
Art
The Plight of Museum Guards in New York Museums
Security guards' annual salaries are less than half the state’s annual median income, hovering just above the equivalent of minimum wage.
In Brief
Guards at National Gallery of Art in DC Say Supervisors Perpetuate Toxic Workplace
Seventeen current and former guards spoke to the Washington Post, alleging that their complaints are routinely ignored or suppressed by higher-ups.
Art
Running the Numbers on Attendance at History Museums in the US
In attempting to gauge whether attendance at American cultural institutions is indeed declining, many commentators often conflate “museum” with “art museum,” but art museums comprise only about 4.5% of American museums, while history institutions, comprise about 55.5%.
In Brief
The Museum that Sold the World: Brooklyn Museum Asks $2,500 for VIP Access to Bowie Show
The museum has devised a whole range of ways to entice visitors into shelling out cash for the hotly anticipated exhibition devoted to the late superstar.
Art
As Museum Attendance Declines, One Institute Argues Audience Engagement Is on the Rise
The National Center for Arts Research, which was created in 2012 by the Meadows School of the Arts and the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University, says museums "have the highest average number of touch points, both in-person and total."