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An After-School Program Gives Refugee Children a Creative Boost
One of the many things that make Charlottesville, Virginia special is that it serves as a destination city for the International Rescue Committee, which helps refugees settle into their new …
Glenstone Museum in Potomac Opens Environmental Center
The Glenstone Museum opened an Environmental Center to improve its sustainable practices. Via Glenstone Museum The Glenstone Museum has opened an Environmental Center designed to enhance …
The Self-Care Ritual of Retreats
One reason I love museum people is that they work so hard to make the world a better place. But all too often, I see colleagues burn out and leave our field because they did not make time …
A Place at the Table: Developing diversity and next-generation leaders
In 2018, the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) in Ohio named Asmaa Walton, a Detroit native with a master’s degree from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, its first KeyBank Museum Fellow. The …
The Power of a Paid Internship: Creating pathways to careers in museums
In 2015, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation issued a report on diversity in art museums that reinforced what is obvious to anyone working in or affiliated with the industry: non-Hispanic white …
Listen to the Interns: The Importance of the “Budding Scholar” for Museum Decolonization
As a junior in college, I think I might have found my calling—for now anyway. For the past two and a half years I have been studying Art History, Museum Studies, and African American …
Montreal museum partners with doctors to ‘prescribe’ art
Montreal physicians will soon have a new possible prescription for their patients: fine art. A doctors' organisation and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) are partnering to allow …
Exploring the Explosion of Museum AI
Here are five good reasons you should join me in Miami Nov 1-2 to explore how museums can use artificial intelligence to fuel their work (illustrated by recent news): AI can help users in …
This new museum doesn’t want Instagram or crowds. Does that make it elitist?
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 Does the Future Hold for China’s Museums and Art Districts?
Over the past decade, Beijing's 798 Art Zone or M50 and the West Bund Culture Corridor in Shanghai are true testaments to China's growing appetite for arts. Each weekend, hordes of …
Paris’s first digital art museum: all lit up at Atelier des Lumières
It's 11.30am on a sunny Tuesday and I'm in rue Saint-Maur, in Paris's 11th arrondissement, queuing to collect pre-booked tickets for the noon showing at L'Atelier des Lumières - Paris's …
Join me in Detroit to Explore the Future of Immersive Practice
I’ve spent the past week designing some futurist exercises for a convening the Alliance is organizing at Detroit Institute of Arts, September 6-7. My colleagues and I are organizing …