In Brief
In disappointing news for those excited for a futuristic new Museum of Modern Art with retractable glass walls and moving floors, the museum has just unveiled scaled-back plans for its upcoming renovation.
Art
What you experience when you visit an art museum these days is likely very different from what your parents did when they were your age.
News
What kind of person opens a private contemporary art museum?
News
The private art museum trend has become so prevalent in the US that Uncle Sam is taking notice.
Art
Museum educators are crucial to museums’ long-term public engagement, but these freelancers lack the job security of a full-time, salaried position.
Art
From 1942 to 1943, while Paris was occupied by Nazi Germany, photographer Robert Doisneau documented the ongoing work of the scientists in the city's natural history museum.
Art
Museum education is a significant aspect of the way museums interface with their audiences, and freelance educators have made themselves crucial to the operation of many of New York’s main art institutions.
Books
While the grandest glories of the French Renaissance were the elaborate castles circling Paris and adorning the Loire Valley, down in Central France a much smaller art form flourished.
Art
Among the 18 million specimens in the oldest natural history museum in the United States are contributions from missionaries and ministers who practiced science alongside their faith.
News
Starting on October 11, MoMA PS1 will be free for all New Yorkers for a year.
In Brief
"Explain the principles of proper labeling, giving an outline of a suitable label for Amphelis cedrorum, Cedar Waxwing; for an army field writing desk used by General Grant during the civil war; for a fossil plant; for a mineral."
In Brief
Last week, the United States lost one of its quirkiest historical museums to a wildfire in northern California.