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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 …

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 …

National Study Highlights That Visits to Science Centers Can Best Predict Youth and Adult Interest in Science

Phoenix, April 03, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arizona Science Center, along with The Franklin Institute and the California Science Center, released the results from their national research …

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