Books
How Can Museums Break Away From White Privilege?
Following cogent survey of the modern art museum’s history, The Art Museum in Modern Times turns to a challenging discussion of the present problems of modern museums.
Museums
News
New Yorkers Can Pick Up Free At-Home Covid Tests at Select Museums and Libraries
Tests are available at the Brooklyn Museum, El Museo del Barrio, and several branches of the city’s three library systems, among other cultural sites.
News
Nearly Half Of US Museums Plan To Increase Staff, New Survey Finds
But only 15% of the more than 700 museums surveyed said they would work to decrease the gap between the highest paid and lowest paid workers.
News
POC-led Arts Orgs In NYC Call for $100M to Address "Cultural Inequity"
HueArts NYC, a new citywide initiative, hopes to secure greater support for institutions led by and serving people of color.
Opinion
Can an Exhibition Selected by Museum Guards Address Inequality at Museums?
Guarding the Art has the chance to become the model for how museums honor and respect the dignity of their guards moving forward.
News
Ten North American Museums to Offer 12-Week $6,300 Paid Internships
Museums in Austin, Louisville, Madison, Montreal, New Orleans, Tampa, and elsewhere will be joining the program, now in its third year.
Opinion
Museums Could Help Families and Children While Saving Our Democracy
What if every regional museum could offer free or subsidized daycare that taught secular values about participatory democracy and culture?
News
If They Only Knew: Brits Rank Museum Curators Among Top 5 Most Trusted Professions
Also, advanced degree holders were more likely to trust curators to tell the truth, exposing gaps in the way the profession is perceived.
Opinion
The Age of Too Much Museum Storage Must End
With growing calls for repatriation of colonial era objects and against illegal trafficking of antiquities, hiding them away from public view in a chamber of secrets is doubly unethical.
News
Attendance to History Museums Plummeted Nearly 70% in 2020
Those who do not know the past are doomed to repeat it.
Opinion
How Museums and NFTs Might Find Common Ground
Museums’ narrow approach to embracing digital art and technologies reinforces the perception within the NFT art community that legacy institutions like museums are elitist and antiquated.
News
Hundreds of US Museums Will Be Free on September 18
Smithsonians' Museum Day returns after pandemic's forced hiatus, and hundreds of museums in every state will be participating.