Opinion
For its annual Zeitgeist Report, Google has listed everything that the entire world has Google-searched for most often this year. Art isn't much in evidence, but we do have a list of the top 10 museums of 2012.
Opinion
The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) has announced that come January 21, two aspects of the museum will be free: general admission (cool!) and memberships (wait, what?).
Opinion
Ok, we may think high museum admission fees are ridiculous but this new suit by two longtime Metropolitan Museum of Art members is over the top.
Art
Looking for a good opportunity to go check out some art this weekend? Smithsonian magazine, affiliated with the Smithsonian museums in Washington, D.C., is sponsoring Museum Day Live!, an event that sees hundreds of museums across the United States opening their doors for free. Just fill out a ticke
Opinion
All of the lost-looking tourists outside the Museum of Modern Art on Tuesdays, rejoice! The museum has announced that it will be staying open seven days a week starting in May of 2013. Presumably, MoMA will still take a few holidays off, putting it a little below that Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam which
News
It has taken almost a decade, but on Saturday, April 13, 2013, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam will reopen after a massive renovation that includes a new Asian pavilion and a renovated garden.
News
A lot has happened in the week and half since we last gave you an update on the situation at Los Angeles's Museum of Contemporary Art. Oh wait, except ... nothing's actually happened.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that 6.28 million people visited the Met during the 2011/12 fiscal year that ended on June 30. Simply, WOW!
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The Corning Museum of Glass has unveiled plans to expand their museum with a 100,000-square-foot expansion designed by architect Thomas Phifer and Partners, the team who completed the award-winning North Carolina Museum of Art that was described by one architectural writer as a "museum building that
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Baltimore's Contemporary Museum closed suddenly this month, shutting down in the middle of an exhibition run and posting a notice to announce the decision a few days later.
Art
Earlier this month, the J. Paul Getty Trust announced that it was cutting 34 jobs in its museum division. In and of itself, this wasn't huge news; despite the absurdly booming art market, the national economy continues to sag, meaning museums have to contend with smaller endowments and less generous
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Members of Helsinki's City Board have rejected the long-standing proposal to build a branch of the Guggenheim Museum on the city's waterfront. Eight of the board's fifteen members voted today against furthering the proposal to the City Council for consideration.