Museums
‘Unnerving Kitsch’: The Problem With The New KGB Museum In New York
The flyer says the place offers a “journey back to socialism.” You can get a picture taken in an old restraining chair, or at a commissar’s desk in his coat; you can dial-a-dictator on an old rotary phone and hear Stalin or Brezhnev give a speech. It’s all “blithely morally neutral,” writes Masha Gessen. “In […]
Why Johns Hopkins Is Buying The Newseum Building
The purchase is an opportunity to position the university, literally, to better contribute its expertise to national- and international-policy discussions.
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American Alliance Of Museums Launches Program To Diversify Museum Leadership
“The project, ‘Facing Change: Advancing Museum Board Diversity & Inclusion,’ will be supported by $4 million in grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Alice L. Walton Foundation and the Ford Foundation. The funds will go toward training and resources over the next three years that will help museum leaders better reflect the communities […]
‘Uncomfortable Art’ And #QueerMuseum: Alternative Museum Tours Are Catching On In Britain
Dan Vo leads groups on #QueerMuseum tours of Cambridge museums and the V&A, pointing out things like an Antarctic explorer’s scandalized notes on male-on-male penguin sex and a “gender-fluid” statue of Lucifer. Alice Procter’s “Uncomfortable Art” tours through the likes of the British Museum point out the ways colonialism pervades the collections. — The New […]
The Story Of ‘Spider-Man’, France’s Most Spectacular Art Thief
“Long before the burglar Vjeran Tomic became the talk of Paris, he honed his skills in Père Lachaise, the city’s largest cemetery … Tomic and his friends turned the cemetery into a parkour playground, leaping from the roof of one mausoleum…
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Reconciling Rich Board Members And Their Compromised Money
It’s a particularly stark reminder that no organization is purely good when money is the major organizing principle. The art
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Why Do Various Foods Disgust Some People And Not Others? There’s A Museum Devoted To The Question
The idea that anything labeled “food” can be described as “disgusting” is a minefield, running up against cultural tastes and
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Museum Of The Bible Pulls Dead Sea Scroll Fragments Found To Be Fakes
“The five fragments now believed to have ‘characteristics inconsistent with ancient origin’ have been displayed at the Museum of the Bible since it opened in November. Labels on the exhibit since it opened have warned guests that some…
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Walton Family Foundation Funds New Teaching Program To Increase Diversity In Museum Staff
The charitable foundation of the family that founded Walmart has given $5.4 million to Spelman College, a historically black institution in Atlanta, and the Atlanta University Center to create an art history and curatorial studies undergraduate program.
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