Tag: Museum
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Centre Pompidou’s New Jersey Museum Is Officially ‘Dead,’ Says Jersey City Mayor
A Centre Pompidou satellite museum that was expected to open in Jersey City is officially not happening anymore, the city’s Mayor said on Wednesday. The museum, officially known as the Centre Pompidou x Jersey City, would have been the only North American satellite operated by Paris’s biggest museum of modern and contemporary art, which is read more
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Debra Wimpfheimer Named Executive Director of Queens Museum
News The Queens native, who succeeds Sally Tallant, has held senior roles at the institution for over two decades. A portrait of Debra Wimpfheimer, the Queens Museum’s incoming executive director (photo by Claudia Lucia, courtesy the museum) Three weeks after the Queens Museum announced the forthcoming departure of Executive Director Sally Tallant, the board has read more
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Investigators Find Decades-Long Mismanagement, Corruption at China’s Nanjing Museum
An investigation into the Nanjing Museum, one of China’s premier state-run cultural institutions, found that decades of systemic mismanagement and corruption enabled the secret sale of national treasures into the private art market. According to the South China Morning Post, the scandal erupted last September after the museum was accused of selling donated paintings, prompting read more
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Philadelphia Museum of Art Chief of Staff Departs as Tumult Continues
A period of turmoil at the newly rechristened Philadelphia Museum of Art continued on this week as two more senior staffers are set to resign from their posts. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that chief of staff Maggie Fairs and CFO Valerie McDuffie will both vacate their posts. Fairs is expected to leave by the end read more
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British Museum Raises $4.8 M. to Keep ‘Tudor Heart’ Pendant in UK
The British Museum announced that it has successfully raised £3.5 million ($4.8 million) to acquire the “Tudor Heart” pendant and keep the centuries-old object in the UK. The museum described the Tudor Heart as “unlike any object in the British Museum collection or elsewhere in the UK.” The 24-carat-gold pendant, which is accompanied by a read more
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Long Misidentified, Object in Museum Is Oldest Drilling Tool Found Yet in Egypt
A small metal object excavated almost 100 years ago has been identified as the oldest known drilling tool yet found in Egypt. The news was reported by Archeology Today. The artifact came from a predynastic cemetery at the archeological site of Badari in Upper Egypt and dates to the late 4th millennium BCE. Part of read more
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Man Accused of Shooting Two Outside Capitol Jewish Museum Now Faces Terrorism Charges
The man accused of killing two Israeli Embassy staffers outside theCapitol Jewish Museumlast May now faces multiple terrorism charges, according to the office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. Elias Rodriguez, a 31-year-old Chicago native, was charged in a 13-count superceding indictment unsealed on Wednesday in federal court in Washington, D.C. The read more
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Buffalo AKG Director Hasn’t Repaid $335K Museum Loan Used to Buy Home, State Report Finds
Janne Sirén, director of Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Art Gallery since 2013, used a museum loan to help finance a $710,000 home—more than half of which remains unpaid, including accrued interest, according to a state review. Buffalo News, citing data from the Erie County Comptroller’s Office, reported that prevailing interest rates at the time of the loan read more
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Toledo Museum of Art Director Adam M. Levine on Six of the Museum’s Most Important 2025 Acquisitions
The Toledo Museum of Art has a somewhat atypical history, in terms of encyclopedic museums of its ilk. “The museum,” director Adam M. Levine explains, “was founded in 1901 with money and not a collection. The most interesting feature of our acquisitions is that they are almost all funded from the endowment rather than as read more
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Philadelphia Art Museum Says Goodbye to “PhAM”
News “There was no good reason to rename it,” Director Daniel Weiss told Hyperallergic about the museum’s decision to backpedal on a controversial new name. Another lesson in “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” (edit Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic) The Philadelphia Art Museum, no, hold on … Scratch that! The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) confirmed read more
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New Details Revealed for Planned Saudi Museum in AlUla
Further details about a new museum to open in AlUla, Saudi Arabia, were revealed by Arts AlUla, a project of the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU). Plans for the Lina Ghotmeh–designed institution, a partnership between the RCU and the Centre Pompidou, were first announced in 2023. The new information was reported by the Art Newspaper, read more
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Philadelphia Art Museum Reverses Controversial Rebrand, Becomes Philadelphia Museum of Art Again
Four months after announcing a snazzy rebrand from the Philadelphia Museum of Art to the Philadelphia Art Museum, the institution announced that it is reversing course. As of Wednesday afternoon, the museum will again be known by its longtime moniker. In a press release, the museum said that it would retain its new griffin logo read more
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Hirshhorn Museum and Art Bridges Team Up to Lend American Artworks to Museums Throughout the US
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., has announced a new, large-scale partnership with the Art Bridges Foundation. The initiative, called 50 for 50, will bring key artworks by American artists from the Hirshhorn’s collection to smaller museums throughout the US’s 50 states and Puerto Rico. The loans will be long-term, lasting three read more
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Hammer Museum Names Chief Curator and Launches Chief of Learning, Engagement, and Research Role
The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles announced two senior leadership appointments today: Michael Wellen will be chief curator, and Regan Pro will be chief of learning, engagement, and research, a newly created role. Wellen begins at the museum on April 6, while Pro will start on March 2. The chief curatorship at the Hammer, which read more
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Artists Urge Jewish Museum to Save Federal ‘Sistine Chapel of New Deal Art’ from Demolition in Open Letter
The latest attempt to save the New Deal-era artwork from the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building in Washington, D.C., involves a letter written by a group of artists urging the Jewish Museum in New York to save the murals and sculptural reliefs created by Jewish artists like Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, and Seymour Fogel. The read more
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There Are a Lot of Open Art Museum Directorships in the United States Right Now
There’s been a lot of drama in the world of museum directors lately, headlined by the meltdown at the Philadelphia Art Museum. Perhaps just as dramatic, though, is the sheer number of open directorships at American art museums. In just the past two days, two major jobs opened up: at the Queens Museum, where Sally read more
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Queens Museum Leader Sally Tallant to Step Down After Seven Years
News Under Tallant, the museum secured a $26 million expansion allocation from the city, but also drew controversy and criticism. Former Queens Museum Director Sally Tallant (photo by Thierry Bal, courtesy Queens Museum) After a seven-year tenure, Sally Tallant will step down as president and executive director of the Queens Museum this summer, per an read more
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Sally Tallant Departs Queens Museum to Lead London’s Hayward Gallery
The Southbank Centre has named Sally Tallant the new director of the Hayward Gallery, a role she will begin in July. She is replacing the Hayward’s longtime director Ralph Rugoff, who recently announced his resignation after 20 years at the helm. As part of her new position, Tallant will also oversee visual art installations at read more
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New Philadelphia Art Museum Director Says Board Doesn’t Need ‘Radical Restructuring’
In one of his first extensive interviews as the new director of the Philadelphia Art Museum, Daniel H. Weiss told the Philadelphia Inquirer that his institution’s board doesn’t require major changes after the abrupt firing of his predecessor last year. Amid a controversial rebranding, Sasha Suda was terminated in November for what an email described read more
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Accessibility Should Be at the Center of Museum Education
Opinion Art history departments often fail to embed disability studies into their curricula when engaging with art, politics, and identity. Installation view of Judith Scott — Bound and Unbound at the Brooklyn Museum in 2014–15 (photo Allison Meier/Hyperallergic) Education departments in museums have always been a north star for accessibility in the arts. Decades-old programs read more
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