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Canadian Museum for Human Rights Nears Opening After Difficult Decade
After years of planning and controversy, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) is officially opening on September 20 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Museums
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LACMA Is the First Museum to Join Snapchat
Social media has become a staple of museum communications plans, so we weren't surprised to learn that the Los Angeles County Museum of Art became the first museum to join the Venice Beach–based social network last month.
Art
Gallery Whispers and Lunch in the Cafe: Mapping Museums Through Their Sounds
"There are so many sounds in museums that we usually ignore that are absolutely engrossing once you take the time to focus on them," says artist John Kannenberg, who's been recording museum noise for 15 years.
In Brief
Brooklyn Museum Goes Free for Those Under 20
Starting September 3, the Brooklyn Museum will be free for visitors under 20.
Art
The United States Has More than 35,000 Museums
You might've suspected that there are a lot of museums in the United States, but would you have guessed that there are over 35,000?
News
Living Quarters: The Frick Collection Expansion
If you've ever walked down the foyer of the Frick Museum, you've probably paused curiously in front of the roped-off white marble staircase anchoring the hall to your right. It ascends toward the neoclassical museum's second floor, a mysterious realm that has never been open to the public. Now, than
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Ikea to Open Ikea Museum
The Swedish retail giant is opening a museum dedicated to itself. Because capitalism!
News
End of the Corcoran? New Plan Would Dissolve the Gallery
After years of financial crisis, Washington, DC's Corcoran Gallery of Art — the city's largest and oldest private museum, which focuses on American art — has announced a plan that would see it “cease to exist as an independent institution," the Washington Post reports.
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African Artists Protest "Indentured Servitude" at Korean Museum
African artists hired by a Korean museum have been laboring under conditions "similar to indentured servitude," South Korean newspaper the Hankyoreh reports. Their allegations about the circumstances under which they lived and worked at the museum are appalling.
Opinion
Against Celebrity, In Defense of New York
Moby and David Byrne are just wrong. New York may be many things to many people, but it is most certainly creative.
Opinion
Using New Media to Shed Light on Old Art Narratives
The internet is a visual space, where virality comes most frequently to media rich in images, whether videos, animated GIFs or simple memes. Connecting these new forms of media with all the classic ways that human beings have told visual stories is a powerful way to reanimate them, sometimes literal
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On Saturday, 20 SoCal Museums Will Be Free
It's a Museums Free-For-All!