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The Hand of Native American Women, Visible at Last

By Tess Thackara, Nytimes
Category: Curatorial Practice
The role of women art-makers in Native communities has gone widely ignored. Now a bold museum show, by and for these women, is shining a light on 1,000 years of their art. Sonya …

London’s National Gallery Lends a $4.5 Million Masterpiece to a Women’s Prison

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Category: Exhibitions
Last year, Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria by the Italian baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi became the first work by a female artist to be acquired by the National Gallery in …

How Rapid-Response Exhibits Are Changing the Way Museums Engage Their Communities

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Category: Collections Stewardship
In July and August 2018, visitors to the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee were witness to a revolutionary type of exhibition, albeit perhaps unknowingly. The exhibition in …

Should These Clothes Be Saved?

By Vanessa Friedman, Nytimes
Category: Curatorial Practice
Thousands of articles of everyday women's clothing are being preserved in lockers in a college basement. But where, exactly, does their value lie? It is possible that one of the more …

What Can the Museum World Learn From Hilma af Klint?

By Shirine Saad, Slate Magazine
Category: Curatorial Practice
Earlier this month, as the Guggenheim Museum's exhibition of the formerly little-known Swedish painter Hilma af Klint drew to an end, art world power broker Thelma Golden posted an …

How Museums Tidy Up

By Ellen C. Caldwell, JSTOR Daily
Category: Collections Stewardship
On April Fools' Day, Artnet teased its readers with a fake headline about how the Met Museum had hired Marie Kondo to help "tidy up" unwanted art from its collection. While they were …

Why New York’s Tenement Museum Workers Decided to Unionize

By Meagan Day, Jacobinmag
Category: Human Resources
Last month, Jacobin editor Micah Uetricht, Jacobin contributor Miles Kampf-Lassin, and I were walking in New York City's Lower East Side when we decided to pop into the gift shop of the …

Weeksville, a Haven for Free African-Americans Before the Civil War, Is Fighting for Survival

By Corina Knoll and Morgan Jerkins, Nytimes
Category: Financial Sustainability
What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox .] Weeksville could have vanished altogether once before. The remains of the village of free African-Americans who …
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Committee on Audience Research and Evaluation (CARE)

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The Committee on Audience Research and Evaluation (CARE) provides a forum for museum professionals who believe that understanding the visitor is an essential part of museum planning and operation. CARE disseminates information about …

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Leadership of this professional network

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Sarah Cohn - Chair, CARE
  • Principal
  • Aurora Consulting, Minneapolis, MN
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Sheila Brommel - Secretary, CARE
  • Evaluation Manager
  • Minnesota Historical Society, Saint Paul, MN

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A New Way to See: Looking at museums through the eyes of the blind
By Samantha Silverberg
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Category: Accessibility
Benchmarking Inclusivity
By Donna Sack and Susie Wilkening
Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
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Spotlight: Most read posts from the Alliance Blog this week!

Decolonisation: we aren’t going to save you

By Puawai Cairns
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We Need a Radically Different System

By Kippen de Alba Chu
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Taking Native Lands and Lives

By Christine Lashaw