Tag: Museums
The city is working with an independent group to survey the diversity — or lack thereof — within New York’s cultural institutions. Department of Cultural Affairs Commissioner Tom Finkelpearl has noticed that cultural organizations across the country are overwhelmingly white. But “if you’re living in a city like we are in New York — with […]
Since Miranda July’s last net-based project kinda pfffted, we knew her latest attempt at topical transmedia looming somewhere ahead. Freshly premiered at the Venice Film Festival, here is the “Somebody” app, commissioned by Miu Miu. Basically, you get strangers with the app to tell your acquaintances things in person instead of you. The app works best when you’re […]
Five museums — New York’s Whitney, Washington’s National Gallery of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art — will be taking over 50,000 various outdoor advertising spaces in August, from electronic billboards to bus shelters to subway ads, coast to coast. The Dallas Museum of […]
The word “curator” gets thrown around casually these days… Fortunately, there’s a”Ask a Curator Day.” On September 19th, the general public is being encouraged to ask the curators of numerous international galleries and museums whatever questions they may have for these experts. 85 Museums in 15 countries signed up for #askacurator so far. This is open to ALL […]
In what is surely either the most or least brootal news story of the week, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum cancelled an upcoming concert by pioneering grindcore band Napalm Death, citing worries that the ensemble’s famously prodigious volume would “damage the historic fabric of the building.” It’s a shame, really: Napalm Death were slated to play through a […]
“They don’t have a Stella and we don’t have a Rauschenberg,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art director Michael Govan says, as simple as that. Yesterday, the LA institution made a formal proposal for a merger with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angles. Govan says it was MOCA board members’ idea originally, according […]
George Lucas, recently retired and now sitting on a roughly $2 billion pension, is planning on opening a museum in San Francisco. The screenwriter-turned-curator will not be featuring Star Wars-inspired art and memorabilia; one of those exists already. Instead, he’ll be sharing original work from his own private “thousands-strong” collection, which he started when he was […]
A community group called Town Square Inc. has visions of a museum to rival Manhattan’s grandest institutions on the waterfront of Williamsburg or Greenpoint. In their eyes, the Brooklyn Science and Art Museum would “[merge] the abstract pursuit of aesthetics with the concrete study of the natural world,” according to the Brooklyn Paper. “We want this to be […]
