I had no idea how much I would love The Hague! It’s a beautiful and peaceful city, crisscrossed with canals, extremely walkable, full of many excellent restaurants, and with public transportation that makes it easy to get everywhere else in Holland. And on top of all that charm and livability, […]
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Beyond the Wall Text: Contextualizing Carpeaux’s Why Born Enslaved! | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker
By Key Jo Lee, associate curator of American art Some of the reasons why curators place certain objects in certain places in the galleries are very apparent. This is by design. Typically, the goal is for each artwork to tell some part of a larger story that illuminates a time […]
Mel Kendrick at Parrish Art Museum
For more than five decades, sculptor Mel Kendrick has created visual puzzles by taking things apart and putting them back together again. The resulting works invert spatial oppositions, giving dimension to feelings of inner conflict. The artist’s retrospective, “Seeing Things in Things,” is an invitation to enjoy the traces of […]
Portland Museum of Art unveils finalists’ designs for expansion — Portland Museum of Art
New entryways on High Street. A rooftop wing featuring open space and live trees. Three separate nods to the Wabanaki. Those are some of the concepts incorporated by four teams of finalists chosen for the Portland Museum of Art Campus Unification + Expansion International Design Competition. The museum has outgrown […]
Artists Boycott Finland’s Kiasma Museum over Ties to Zionist Arms Heir
More than 150 artists have pledged to boycott Helsinki’s Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma until it severs relations with British-Finnish billionaire Chaim “Poju” Zabludowicz, who sits on the board of the institution’s support foundation. An avid collector who has over the past decade loaned a number of works to Kiasma, […]
“TEXTURES” of “The New Black Vanguard”: A Glimpse into the Intersection of Artists Musing on Black Hair | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker
By Dr. Tameka Ellington, Speaker, Author, and Cocurator of “TEXTURES: the history and art of Black hair” People of African descent have hair that is like no other race of people. It is the number one racial identifier, skin tone being the second. Afro or Black hair grows out of […]
Sean Decatur to Lead NYC’s American Museum of Natural History
Sean Decatur, the president of Ohio’s Kenyon College, will be the next director of New York’s American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), making him the first Black person to lead the institution. In April, Decatur will take over from Ellen Futter, who has been at the helm of the AMNH […]
Proxistant Vision” Takes Over the Museum of Craft and Design
Bull.Miletic: Proxistant Vision is now on view at the Museum of Craft and Design (MCD). Guest curated by Carol Covington, this exhibition is the culmination of artist duo Bull.Miletic’s research exploring the impact of new aerial imaging technologies and their influence and power in everyday life. Following the current surge […]
Two New Exhibitions on Monastic History at the Hungarian National Museum
In the middle of June 2021, two exhibitions opened at the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest, each dedicated to the history of a monastic order. The first exhibition is dedicated to the 900 anniversary of the foundation of the Premonstratensian (Norbertine) order. The members of the order have been present in […]
Component Parts of Collections Management: Who’s Who? | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Oct, 2022
By Sydney Slacas, Assistant Registrar When you visit the Cleveland Museum of Art, have you ever thought about who cares for the extraordinary collection? With the collection spanning nearly 6,000 years of artistic achievement, the CMA’s Collections Management team works hard every day to install exhibitions, coordinate art shipments, complete […]