Exhibitions

Students Solve a History Mystery and Teach a Lesson in Collaboration

Fourth and fifth graders at Silverton Elementary School reversed roles with teachers and set an example of how museums and schools can work together to broaden the telling of a community’s …

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

David Whitemyer

Gone Digital: Creating Space-Saving Museum Exhibitions

Kyle Mathers

By Any Means Necessary: Digital, Virtual, and Travelling African American and Civil Rights Exhibitions

Charlene Blair

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

Philip Kennicott, Washington Post

What Is Curatorial Activism?

Maura Reilly, ARTnews

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

David Whitemyer

On Cross Collecting, or Cross-Over Buying

David Bellingham, Sothebysinstitute

Beyond stereotypes: how Iranian art is challenging preconceptions

Nadja Sayej, The Guardian

Beyond the Block: Empowering Incarcerated Artists

Michael Berlucchi

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

Bríd Stenson, The Guardian

Join me in Detroit to Explore the Future of Immersive Practice

Elizabeth Merritt

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