Opinion
What Is the Most Expensive City to Visit Museums?
According to Leah Sandals's charticle over at This Magazine, titled "Admission Impossible," the answer to that question may be Toronto. Gaze at her chart and be amazed.
Museums
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News
Breaking: Images of Egyptian Museum Damage [UPDATE 34] King Tut Objects Damaged?
CONTINUING COVERAGE … UPDATE 24: Sat. Jan 29 12:43pm EST: Al-Jazeera has broadcast video of the damage at the National Museum, aka Egyptian Museum. The strange thing about these images is that they demonstrate that the damage is certainly more than a few mummies, which is what Reuters reported that
Opinion
Imagining iMuseums
Inspired by our image-saturated culture, French artist Leo Caillard has reimagined the Louvre as a digital library, while James Elkins has compiled some real stats about how long people actually look at art in museums.
Art
What is "American" Art?
The purpose of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts' new Art of the Americas wing to provide a space to tell the entire story of American art. Yet visitors may be surprised to find the ground floor of the new wing occupied by Aztec, Mayan and Native American art, sharing space with early colonial work. Th
News
Boston MFA Builds New Wing For 17-Foot Painting
If you're been anywhere near the Green Line or Museum Street in Boston, you've seen the hulking glass structure perched to the side of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts’ old Beaux-Arts building. Finally, we get a peak inside the new structure thanks to a media preview this past week. Designed by eminen
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Art Attacker Pleads Not Guilty in Colorado
The Montana truck driver accused of destroying a controversial art work that featured the image of Jesus at the Loveland Museum/Gallery in Loveland, Colorado has pleaded not guilty to charges against her Friday morning. According to news reports on 9news.com and the Denver Post website, Kathleen Fol
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Art Work Attacked in Colorado Museum
Kathleen Folden, 56, of Kalispell, Montana, has been charged with attacking an art work by California-based artist Enrique Chagoya with a crowbar while it was on display in the Loveland Museum Gallery in Loveland, Colorado. The 12-panel lithograph, according to the artist’s statement to FoxNews, dep
Art
Exclusive: Secret Marina Abramović Foursquare Badge Unlocked
Early yesterday, New York art critic and blogger Paddy Johnson revealed via tweet that she unlocked what appears to be a secret Foursquare badge related to performance artist Marina Abramović's solo show at the Museum of Modern Art. Now, everyone wants one. [SPOOF]