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This new museum doesn’t want Instagram or crowds. Does that make it elitist?

By Philip Kennicott, Washington Post
There are contemporary museums harder to get to and more isolated than Glenstone, including one on a lonely island in Japan and another in a remote town in Texas. Some museums are …

What Is Curatorial Activism?

By Maura Reilly, ARTnews

It Takes a Village: Are You Getting These 6 Perspectives for Your Exhibition?

By David Whitemyer

On Cross Collecting, or Cross-Over Buying

By David Bellingham, Sothebysinstitute

Beyond stereotypes: how Iranian art is challenging preconceptions

By Nadja Sayej, The Guardian

Beyond the Block: Empowering Incarcerated Artists

By Michael Berlucchi

Paris’s first digital art museum: all lit up at Atelier des Lumières

By Bríd Stenson, The Guardian

Join me in Detroit to Explore the Future of Immersive Practice

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By Elizabeth Merritt

Out of the Blue: A Punderful Session About Out-of-the-Box Thinking

A woman smiles at the camera wearing a striped blue and white shirt. She has shoulder length straight brown hair.
By Juliana Venegas

Practice Makes Perfect: 4 Keys to Exhibit Prototyping Success

By David Whitemyer

50 years later, St. Louis’ Gateway Arch emerges with a new name and a skeptical view of western expansion

By Philip Kennicott, Washington Post

Taking Chances: 6 Strategies to Encourage Risk-Taking in Exhibit Design

By David Whitemyer
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By Nicole Smith
Category: Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion
In being a museum professional during the social media age, there are few things cooler than getting to be a Social Media Journalist for the American Alliance of Museum (AAM) conference. In …

The Museum Education Act passes the New York State Legislature

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By Erika Sanger
Category: Advocacy
Is it done yet? What can I do to help? What happens next? When can we apply for funding? Those are just some of the questions I’ve been getting since the Museum Education Act (MEA) passed …

A Suggestion Box is Not Going to Fix a Riot

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By Calder Zwicky
Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
I love a good immersive futurist exercise. One of the earliest CFM events involved recruiting museum people to create museum narratives for Superstruct, the Institute for the Future’s …