Curatorial Practice

Mission Accomplished?: As Mainstream Art Museums Rush to Diversify, What is the Role of Culturally Specific Museums Working for a Cause?

Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews

In July, El Museo del Barrio, a museum in upper Manhattan devoted to exhibiting and collecting Latinx and Latin American art, issued a statement in response to the family separation crisis …

European museums may loan back some works stolen from former colonies

James McAuley and Rick Noack, Washington Post

What Is Curatorial Activism?

Maura Reilly, ARTnews

On Cross Collecting, or Cross-Over Buying

David Bellingham, Sothebysinstitute

The site of the earliest known temple on earth continues to keep its secrets

Yasmine Seale, Apollo Magazine

Join me in Detroit to Explore the Future of Immersive Practice

Elizabeth Merritt

Māori ancestors repatriated to New Zealand by the Peabody Museum

Museums too: what should institutions do when artists are accused of abuse?

Jillian Steinhauer, The Art Newspaper

What’s the Best Path to a Top Museum Job? We Analyzed the Training of 100 Curators to Find Out

Brian Boucher, artnet News

Fifteen years after looting, thousands of artefacts are still missing from Iraq’s national museum

Craig Barker, The Conversation

Commerce vs. Curation: Lessons From Today’s Museums World

Scott Reyburn, Nytimes

Scooby Doo In the Museum

Sarah Anne Carter, Avidly

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A Case Study—in Progress—of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Brand Refresh

Linda Butler and Jennifer Sonderby

Mission & Institutional Planning

With the arrival of a new director and CEO in 2016, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco expanded its largely encyclopedic approach to art history by introducing a curatorial department …

Where the Seats Have No Name: In Defense of Museum Benches

David Whitemyer

Exhibitions

Sitting gets a bad rap. The last few years have seen articles and media outlets touting that “Sitting is the new smoking.” Standing desks are the latest office furniture trend. And in …

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