In Brief
Metropolitan Museum May Start Charging Admission to Out-of-Towners
The museum is in talks with municipal officials about potentially charging tourists a mandatory admission fee.
Museums
Art
In Miami, a Museum Attempts to Bring Teens and Cops Together Over Art
Art Detectives, a partnership between the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Miami-Dade Police Department, and two community organizations that launched last month, may be the only program of its kind in the US.
Art
After the Election, US Museums Affirm Their Roles as Safe, Open Spaces
The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tenement Museum, and Japanese American National Museum are among those speaking out.
News
Activists in LA’s Boyle Heights Serve Galleries with Eviction Notices
LOS ANGELES — “No one is an innocent actor in the fine art of gentrification,” said a woman with a bandana covering her face, as she stood with dozens of protesters last Saturday evening outside of Museum as Retail Space, a gallery in the Eastside neighborhood of Boyle Heights.
News
Anti-Gentrification Coalition Calls for Galleries to Leave LA's Boyle Heights
LOS ANGELES — The latest development in the debate over art and gentrification in Boyle Heights took place earlier this month, when a public forum was held at the Pico Gardens complex, part of the largest public housing bloc west of the Mississippi.
Books
The History of Life-Sized, Fully Dissectible "Anatomical Venuses"
In the 18th century, medical students and the general public learned about the insides of the human body through a tool that to 21st-century eyes likely appears shocking or offensive.
Books
Photographs of the Birds and Bones in US National Park Collections
When a wayward tufted titmouse slammed against photographer Leah Sobsey's window, the bird's tiny corpse suddenly recalled all the natural specimens that had captivated her as a child at Chicago's Field Museum.
Art
Dalí’s Doppelgängers and Ghosts
Salvador Dalí was named after his brother, who died in infancy, before Dalí was born.
Art
The Conflict Around Diversity at the American Alliance of Museums
This year's AAM (American Alliance of Museums) conference, organized under the theme “Power, Influence, and Responsibility,” made a significant effort to meaningfully engage with issues of diversity and the inclusion of historically underrepresented populations.
News
Tax Law Too Lax? IRS Receives Results of Private Museum Investigation
Last November, Senate Finance Committee chairman Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) sent a letter to the founders of 11 private museums across the US to investigate whether the institutions operate in a way that benefits the public enough to warrant receiving tax-exempt status.
Art
Things to Know and Consider Before Taking an Unpaid Internship
A few years ago I worked at a commercial art gallery on the Lower East Side as the communications manager. In this role I was responsible for interviewing our unpaid interns, hiring them, and supervising their daily tasks.
Art
The Challenges of Showing the Artifacts of an Early European Wax Museum Today
A death mask of Napoleon; life-size pregnant women, body cavities open and displaying the miracle of life; body parts afflicted with symptoms of syphilis and leprosy — these are just a few of the wax wonders currently on view at Brooklyn’s Morbid Anatomy Museum.