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How Artists Fight Vision Loss and Continue to Make New Work

Like O'Keeffe, many artists who eventually have only peripheral sight are pushed to explore new mediums. The tireless painter Hedda Sterne, diagnosed with AMD at the age of 83, discovered …

Seeding Vitality Arts with The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

This is the third in a series of posts publicizing Aroha Philanthropy’s call for proposals for Seeding Vitality Arts in Museums, funding the development and implementation of high quality, …

Seeding Vitality Arts at the Newark Museum

The Alliance is collaborating with Aroha Philanthropies and Lifetime Arts to support a cohort of 15 to 17 museums in a program to create instructional arts workshop series for older adults. …

Are Fabricators the Most Important People in the Art World?

As contemporary artists become increasingly less present in their own work, the people who make their pieces remain unsung heroes. THE IMAGE OF the artist feverishly working alone as first …

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

These days, it feels like you can't swing a canvas tote without hitting a newly credentialed curator. As art institutions expand and biennials proliferate, the population of curators has …

Tate Director delivers hard line on the future of museums

Directors of Tate and MCA join in launching the acquisition of artworks across their institutions with the assistance of Qantas; photo ArtsHub When Sir Nicholas Serota left the directorship …

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

"We see more private collectors engaged with museum boards and loaning works to museums," said John Mathews, head of private wealth management at UBS America. "Competition for the best …

Instagram is killing the way we experience art in museums

"Please take your photos as quickly as possible and you can look it up online. Everything is online." Those were the instructions of a museum guard to visitors at the US National Portrait …

Internet Artists Invaded the MoMA With a Guerrilla Augmented Reality Exhibit

Image: Mack DeGeurin A collective of eight internet artists transformed the Jackson Pollock room in the New York City Museum of Modern Art into their own augmented reality gallery-without …

The subtlety of shepherding an audience toward collection visitation.

I often write about solving big challenges - how to launch things or fully rework things, etc., but what about the times when you want to take something from good to great? That was exactly …

The New Face of Provenance Research

Like the stories depicted in them, works of art have stories of their own. These stories-of how an art object travels, is bought and sold, and physically changes over time-are called its …

As Museum Attendance Declines, One Institute Argues Audience Engagement Is on the Rise

The National Center for Arts Research, which was created in 2012 by the Meadows School of the Arts and the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University, says museums "have the …

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