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Museums present visual art as beautiful things you can touch
Patricia Bérubé, Carleton University A shift is taking place in museums and the way art history is presented globally. More museums now value visitor experience and at the same time, […]
Dia: Chelsea to go admission-free
Around this time, next year, New York’s Dia: Chelsea will reopen its doors boasting a site-specific installation by Renata Lucas, a Brazilian artist. Traditionally, the institution’s Chelsea location has had […]
Museum Day means free admission to hundreds of US museums (and it’s tomorrow!)
Coming to a city and stumbling across a free museum is like a godsend. For art lovers, history buffs, students, and someone just looking to kill a few hours, it’s […]
Mnuchin Gallery retrospective on Alma Thomas to open soon
In 2015, the White House acquired a painting by Alma Thomas entitled Resurrection (1966). The painting, which features concentric circles of bright colours in Thomas’ signature fashion, will soon share […]
How a photography might help solve the mystery of Amelia Earhart
During an attempt to make history, Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan were circumnavigating the world in Earhart’s custom Lockheed model 10-E Electra. In July of 1937, though, the […]
Louvre strikes Sackler name from gallery and website
The Louvre has become the first major institute to officially remove the Sackler family name from its galleries. The Sacklers had been associated with the museum’s wing of oriental antiquities […]
‘Show Me Yours’: exploring the nude figure in novel ways
‘Show Me Yours’ is a group exhibition on at Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago. The exhibition, which features artworks by Bianca Nemelc, Jake Troyli, and Brittney Leeanne Williams, runs alongside […]
Basquiat like you’ve never seen before…literally
Graphic novels innately cross the threshold between art and literature. Their style has been reflected by a number of artists over the years like Roy Lichtenstein whose blend of fine […]
Art Gallery of Ontario’s bold, new, and cheap membership campaign
Museums in recent years have been rethinking the ways in which they engage their audiences, and, for some, that has meant reevaluating their admission costs. The Museum of Contemporary Art […]
Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor is a tribute to living, breathing works of ar
Kit Wise, RMIT University “This is no ordinary painting – it is a living picture that moves!” So says one of the “For kids” labels in the National Gallery […]
