Opinion
NY Museum Attendance & Twitter Followers
@MuseumNerd, that anonymous art personality on Twitter, has blogged an interesting graphic that lists the attendance to New York museums, their Twitter following, and how they measure up.
Museums
Opinion
Study: Artsy Men Are Happier
A study suggests that men who enjoy cultural activities and attend museums are happier [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43144425/ns/health-behavior/]. The study suggests the same isn't true for women. No word if the benefits extend to art blog readers.
News
US Museums Confront the Ai Weiwei Question
Xinhua reports that Ai Weiwei's FAKE studio evaded tax and intentionally destroyed accounting documents. US museums debate the ethics of working with Chinese organizations. Art Basel buys the Art HK fair, provoking some to call for a boycott.
Opinion
Contemporary Art Will Ruin Your Wedding
When is a rainbow a bad thing? When it's ruining your carefully planned minimalist wedding reception booked at the Art Institute of Chicago, that's when! In this tale of horror, an installation by artist Pae White causes couples to reconsider hosting their weddings parties in the museum space.
News
NYC's Seaport Museum Will Stay Afloat With New Board, Land Sale
Though it faces a budget crisis and problems with a misdirected leadership, New York City's South Street Seaport Museum will remain intact and its working tall ships will stay moored in New York City Harbor rather than sent away for storage. Under a new plan, the museum's president and board of dire
News
Thief Steals Artifacts From Forbidden City
Think Beijing's historic Forbidden City is pretty well guarded? Well, you'd be right, the place is infested with security. Yet that didn't stop a thief from grabbing $1.5 million worth of artifacts from the Palace Museum in the Forbidden City.
News
Manhattan Museums Play Monopoly
This week has been pretty huge for New York City's museum community. Newly announced shake-ups mean that the Metropolitan Museum will be taking over the Whitney's uptown Breuer building as the younger institution heads downtown to a new Renzo Piano-designed space. The Museum of Modern Art is buying
Opinion
Why Are So Many Museums Buying Christian Marclay's “The Clock”?
The Boston MFA is purchasing Christian Marclay's epic movie mash-up “The Clock” (2010) (recently on view in NYC) for $250,000. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art bought the piece in April, and there are rumors that MoMA plans to do the same. What's up with this collecting fad?
Art
Save Seaport Museum's Bowne & Co. Printing Studio
Following major funding and staff cuts this past February, New York City's Seaport Museum closed its Bowne & Company Stationers, a well-known and well-liked working printing studio as well as a documentary exhibit of historical printing processes. Now, efforts are underway to reopen the studio.
Art
An Appreciation of MoMA's Miniature Picasso
Walking through the Museum of Modern Art's modern galleries the other day, I happened upon a small painting that's about as powerful a work as any I've ever seen in the museum, and maybe my favorite object in the collection. Surprisingly, this mini work is actually a Picasso, and even at 6 1/4 by 4
Art
Everyone Wants to be First
There is apparently something about institutional street art shows that move museum folk towards declarations of their firstness. Street Art at the Tate Modern in 2008 was billed as "the first major public museum display of Street Art in London" while just last winter Hugh Davies, Director of the Mu
Opinion
Visitors Draw Out Their MoMA Stories
Tamsin Nutter and Brigitta Bungard of the Museum of Modern Art have put together a project that exposes that other, non-curatorial, side of the museum world — the viewers' experiences. For a few days in February, they placed stations with pads of paper and pens in MoMA's galleries for guests to jot