Tag: museums

With physical distancing the order of the day as COVID-19 spreads, cultural locales — sites for communal experiences, like museums and theaters — are emptying out. What are we sharing if we’re not sharing these spaces? And were we really sharing them to begin with?

We’re gonna need more bubble wrap.

In these troubling economic times, you can’t amass a giant art collection without robbing a few hundred museums any more.

How Canadian is Justin Bieber? His hometown’s “Steps to Stardom” exhibit provides some answers.

Adrian Piper’s body of work encourages audiences to think critically about race, gender, and power, and to engage with their own perceptions.

Looking for an Instagrammable way to spend your Saturday? Mediate your imagination through the forced whimsy of the Dream Machine.

Curator Michael Auping on the forty years he spent interviewing artists in their studios.

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in arts and culture writing.

In his review for the New York Times, Holland Cotter writes that the museum fails in “truth-telling.”

The space has become a vital convening point for creatives, culture workers, and audiences interested in ideas of black excellence.

It has become harder over the last 130 years or so to see Van Gogh plain. It is practically harder in that our approach to his paintings in museums is often blocked by an urgent, excitable crescent of worldwide fans, iPhones aloft for the necessary selfie with Sunflowers. They are to be welcomed: the international reach […]

I’ve spent much of my life in and in love with museums. When I was 10 years old, there was no mention of art in my home. But then my mother began driving me from the suburbs to the Art Institute of Chicago. There, she looked at art on her own for hours, leaving me […]

Von Hagens has no shortage of donors. His exhibitions have used 1,100 bodies – but he claims to have another 12,100 living donors signed up. One is Emma Knott, a PR consultant in London. “I was so inspired after I saw the exhibition], which is why I made that decision,” she says. But does she have reservations? “Not really, I mean let’s face it I’m going to be dead.” For her, the attraction lies in encouraging people to get excited about science and anatomy.

He was driving around the Whitney in his Ford S.U.V., making sure the museum would be ready for the public. Born and raised in New Orleans, Cummings is as rife with contrasts as the land that surrounds his plantation. He is 77 but projects the unrelenting angst of a teenager. His disposition is exceedingly proper […]