Tag: Museum

  • 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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  • Philadelphia Art Museum Might Rebrand Its Botched Rebrand

    News The institution set up a task force to evaluate the controversial new brand identity as it parts ways with its chief marketing officer. Philadelphia Art Museum’s campus upon debuting its institutional rebrand last October (photo by Rob Cusick, courtesy the museum) The Philadelphia Art Museum (PhAM) might be looking at rebranding its rebrand in read more

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    Philadelphia Art Museum Might Rebrand Its Botched Rebrand

  • Yasha Grobman Appointed Director of the Israel Museum

    Yasha Grobmanhas been appointed director general of theIsrael Museumin Jerusalem, according toHaaretz, ending a prolonged leadership crisis at one of Israel’s most prominent cultural institutions. Grobman will succeedSuzanne Landau, who stepped down in early January after serving as interim director since September 2023. The appointment follows what the museum described as a lengthy and discreet read more

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  • Philadelphia Art Museum Executive Behind Controversial Rebrand Resigns

    The marketing executive behind the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s divisive rebranding campaign has resigned, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Paul Dien, who joined the museum in 2023 as chief marketing under former museum director and CEO Sasha Suda, will leave effective February 1, the museum confirmed. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, Dien has accepted a consultancy read more

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  • Michael Jackson’s Rarely Seen Art to Go on View in Traveling Museum Debuting in Monaco

    While Michael Jackson‘s music will come into focus through a blockbuster biopic set for the big screen this year, a lesser-seen part of his oeuvre, his visual art, could soon be headed to a gallery near you. Jermaine Jackson, the singer’s older brother, revealed plans this past December to launch a touring museum that will read more

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    Michael Jackson’s Rarely Seen Art to Go on View in Traveling Museum Debuting in Monaco

  • Five Art and Museum Events for MLK Day in NYC

    Guide Special collection tours at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Mayor Zohran Mamdani in a live reading of one of King’s sermons, and other programs. BAM VP of Creative Social Impact Coco Killingsworth at the 37th Annual Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on January 16, 2023 (photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images) Fifteen read more

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  • Pennsylvania Man Who Stole Warhol and Pollock Paintings in Museum Theft Ring Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison

    Joseph Atsus, a 51-year-old Pennsylvania man, was sentenced on Tuesday to 48 months in prison, a term of supervised release, and $1 million in restitution for several charges related to his participation in a notorious museum theft ring, the Department of Justice announced earlier this week. Atsus was part of a eight-person ring that stole read more

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    Pennsylvania Man Who Stole Warhol and Pollock Paintings in Museum Theft Ring Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison

  • Met Workers Vote to Join Local 2110 UAW, Creating One of the Nation’s Largest Museum Unions

    Nearly 1,000 salaried and hourly workers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art voted on Friday to join Local 2110 of the United Auto Workers (UAW), creating one of the nation’s largest museum unions. The new union, approved by a vote of 542-172, comprises staff from across 50 departments at the Met, including curators, conservators, librarians, read more

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    Met Workers Vote to Join Local 2110 UAW, Creating One of the Nation’s Largest Museum Unions

  • Met Museum Workers Are Officially Unionized

    News The new union will represent staff across 50 departments of the Manhattan institution. Members of the new Metropolitan Museum of Art Union pose outside the institution. (photo by Tiffany Camusci, courtesy Local 2110 UAW) Staff at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City are officially unionized following a successful National Labor Relations read more

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  • The Detroit Museum of Arts Confronts Art History While Shaping Its Future 

    “We have not yet begun to utilize the museum as an instrument of cultural education.” Those words, from Alain Locke’s 1925 essay “The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts,” carry visitors through a set of newly installed permanent collection galleries at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA). When he penned that text a century ago, Locke, read more

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    The Detroit Museum of Arts Confronts Art History While Shaping Its Future 

  • Four Additional Suspects Arrested in Connection to Louvre Museum Heist

    Four suspects have been arrested in connection with the theft of the French crown jewels from the Louvre Museum in Paris last month, USA Today reported. Two men and two women between the ages of 31 and 40 were arrested on Tuesday and are being questioned, according to statements made by French prosecutors on Tuesday. read more

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  • An Expansion and Renovation Brings New Life to the Portland Art Museum

    When the Portland Art Museum presented the city’s first retrospective exhibition of paintings by Mark Rothko in 2012, many local viewers were unaware that the artist grew up in Portland, where he attended the Portland Art Museum School and was awarded his first museum exhibition. With Rothko now officially reclaimed as a hometown hero, and read more

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    An Expansion and Renovation Brings New Life to the Portland Art Museum

  • University of Leicester Updates Its Trans-Inclusive Museum Guidelines, Despite Legal Threats

    The University of Leicester in England made updates to its guidance on trans-inclusivity for museums and galleries last month. The university made the change, despite receiving litigation threats from the campaign group Freedom in the Arts (FITA). The 44-page document in questionwas “regularly reviewed and kept up to date”, the university told Arts Professional, following read more

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  • 21C Museum Hotel in Bentonville Opens Eyes in the Ozarks – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    First up is a tour of 21c’s Fragile Figures: Beings and Time, a revealing look at intersections between vulnerability and power in portraiture. It’s an exhibition that examines the “complexity of class, identity, and politics in history and more specifically, art history. The works in Fragile Figures: Beings and Time are comprised of a vast read more

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    21C Museum Hotel in Bentonville Opens Eyes in the Ozarks – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Let’s Go Inside and Outside Bentonville’s Crystal Bridges Museum – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    A half-hour walk from the museum is The Momentary, an extension of Crystal Bridges, which is housed within a decommissioned cheese factory and currently features two immersive exhibitions: Mystic Parallax by multidisciplinary artist Awol Erizku and Dark Waters by photographer Kristine Potter. Mystic Parallax’s rich and exciting imagery blends Erikzu’s studio practice with the artists’ read more

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    Let’s Go Inside and Outside Bentonville’s Crystal Bridges Museum – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Can a Hotel Be a Contemporary Art Museum, Too? An Interview with 21c Curator Alice Gray Stites – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Above: a view of a Nightwatch room, and an oil painting by Ruth Owens on display at 21c Oh, pardon my coastal ignorance! You have just announced the Nightwatch immersive Suites. It is described as a “sleep-in installation” and a ‘sensory experience where “The moving light uncovers the animated magic hidden within the forest, reminding read more

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    Can a Hotel Be a Contemporary Art Museum, Too? An Interview with 21c Curator Alice Gray Stites – Hi-Fructose Magazine