Rio Art Museum could close due to lack of federal funding
Two directors left the museum last week, and 126 employees have received a dismissal notice
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Moving to the suburbs: vast museum collections centre destined for ‘New Moscow’
State Tretyakov Gallery among 23 Russian museums planning to store and show works near former killing field Kommunarka
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San Antonio Gets Its First Contemporary Art Museum, Thanks To A Hot-Sauce Heiress
Shortly before she died in 2007, philanthropist Linda Pace had a dream in which she saw a shining red counterpart to the Emerald City in The Wizard of Oz which would hold her art collection and make it available to the public.
The Museum Where They Print Money
OK, where they printed money, a museum of the Mint – but not in the mint. Real estate is everything in San Francisco- San Francisco Chronicle
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In Paris, A New Musée De La Libération Commemorates The Nazi Occupation Of The City And Its Emancipation
The museum’s collection of archival film and photos, maps, letters, posters, and pamphlets focuses on two heroes of de Gaulle’s Free French movement: the former préfet Jean Moulin and General Philippe Leclerc. – Apollo
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How Gallery Prices Impact Museum Diversity
This is a textbook example of how a narrow viewpoint and blind devotion to procedure can lead you to bad ends.
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New York City To Build Performing Arts Center Dedicated To Immigrants
“Last week, the city announced that it has committed $15 million to fund the design and construction of the Immigrant Research and Performing Arts Center in Inwood, the northernmost neighborhood in Manhattan. [Two municipal agencies] released an initial call for interest in the project, beginning the search for a non-profit to step in and manage […]
Not Everything Glittered In The Netherlands’ So-Called Golden Age, Says Museum
The Amsterdam Museum said on Thursday that staff were banned from using the term to describe the 17th century because “the term is strongly associated with national pride because of prosperity and peace but ‘ignores the many negative sides of the 17th century, such as poverty, war, forced labor and human trafficking.’” There’s blowback, of […]
Now: Point Your Phone At Any Art And Find Out What It Is
Magnus is part of a wave of smartphone apps trying to catalog the physical world as a way of providing instantaneous information about songs or clothes or plants or paintings.
Are Arts Orgs’ Diversity Initiatives Just A New Form Of Paternalism?
That’s the charge made by a few leading arts figures, among them Madani Younis, creative director of London’s Southbank Centre: “This paternalism on the one hand allows institutions to co-opt the concerns of diversity, of gender, of class and so on. On the one hand, you say: ‘That’s super good. These guys are on it, […]