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Paris’s first digital art museum: all lit up at Atelier des Lumières
Since its premiere three months ago, L’Atelier des Lumieres–the first digital art museum in Paris–has beguiled over 400,00 visitors through state-of-the-art visuals and …
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 …
How Artists Fight Vision Loss and Continue to Make New Work
In this article, Claire Voon explores how artists who are visually impaired as a result of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) continue to create for their audiences. She highlights a …
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?
In today’s art practice, frequent collaboration between artists and fabricators renders the line between creation and engineering increasingly seamless. “Mastering your craft …
What’s the Best Path to a Top Museum Job? We Analyzed the Training of 100 Curators to Find Out
What is the best career preparation that will ultimately result in landing a curatorial job in museums? That’s the question that this article unpacks through a study of 100 curators …
Tate Director delivers hard line on the future of museums
In this post, Gina Fairley interviews Tate Director Maria Balshaw about the current state and future of museums concerning gender equity, the ways that museums can effectively connect with …
Commerce vs. Curation: Lessons From Today’s Museums World
In this article, the author, Scott Reyburn examines the overlap between the financial operations of museums and their admissions alongside the role of curating permanent and special …
Instagram is killing the way we experience art in museums
In this article, Anne Quito discusses the positive and negative ways in which the ubiquity of mobile phones and social media has fundamentally changed how visitors choose to experience art …
Internet Artists Invaded the MoMA With a Guerrilla Augmented Reality Exhibit
This article describes a recent augmented reality take-over of the permanent collection exhibitions at MoMA in New York. The artist collective MoMAR used this form of technology to make …
The subtlety of shepherding an audience toward collection visitation.
This article by Shelley Bernstein from the Barnes Foundation shares that museum’s experiences in trying to coax visitors to a late night social event to visit the galleries during …