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For a bit of levity…

Posted by Phillippa Pitts on October 24, 2012 in food for thought, museums in the news |

  The New Yorker Wades into “Curator” Confusion  

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Museums in the News

Posted by Phillippa Pitts on October 22, 2012 in museums in the news |

Unmissable story this week: The theft of  7 major works from the Kunsthal  Museum in Rotterdam including a Gauguin, Matisse, Freud, Monet and a Picasso! Read the NYT article here, or search for others to follow the case! And then, we’re back to our weekly round-up of our favorite things that were said about museums [...]

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Museums in the News

Posted by Phillippa Pitts on October 15, 2012 in museums in the news |

Here’s our weekly round-up of our favorite things that were said about museums this week: the good, the bad, and the really quite strange! Space Shuttle Endeavour’s Historic L.A. Move Documented for Film Met Museum Makes Hundreds of Catalogues Available Online For Free A wee bit scandalous! THE BEATLES’ PENISES DEFACED AT MUSEUM OF LIVERPOOL Hampden [...]

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Museums in the News

Posted by Phillippa Pitts on October 8, 2012 in museums in the news, Uncategorized |

Not “news,” but don’t miss a TED talk with the director of the Met! Here’s our weekly round-up of our favorite things that were said about museums this week: the good, the bad, and the really quite strange! A vistor to the Tate Modern tags a Rothko painting on display: Police hunt for Mark Rothko vandal [...]

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Museums in the News

Posted by Phillippa Pitts on October 1, 2012 in museums in the news |

Here’s our weekly round-up of our favorite things that were said about museums this week: the good, the bad, and the really quite strange! Baltimore museum could reclaim Renoir sold at flea market for $7 Irish Famine Museum Opening at Conn. University Seattle Art Museum’s New Exhibit: Women Take Over American Museum of Magic still a [...]

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Museums in the News

Posted by Amanda Gustin on September 23, 2012 in museums in the news |

Welcome to our weekly roundup of news articles about museums. Dallas museum to display artwork from JFK suite before his death Smithsonian Seeks to Remake Stodgy Image zaigas gailes birojs: zanis lipke memorial museum Museum reform in Milan sparks fears of “privatisation” Steel museum looks at strike, mill closings Lubbock museum euthanizes mules for exhibit [...]

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Museums in the News

Posted by Amanda Gustin on September 16, 2012 in museums in the news |

Kind of a slow week for museums in the news, but here’s a short roundup of interesting articles. 9/11 museum exhibits more than just a job for local firm Museum exhibit explores NYC’s forgotten borough In Depressed Athens, a Money Museum Tries to Turn the Tide SF’s de Young & Legion of Honor Museums Battle [...]

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Museums in the News

Posted by Amanda Gustin on September 9, 2012 in museums in the news |

Welcome to our weekly roundup of news articles about museums. Creation Museum ‘Science Guys’ Rebut Bill Nye: VIDEO Deal reached to keep NE Ind. military museum open People’s choice heart of Brooklyn Museum show Ringling museum draws awe Gettysburg museum swaps in new artifacts for display Penn Museum makes deal with Turkey for ‘Troy gold’ [...]

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Museums in the News

Posted by Amanda Gustin on August 26, 2012 in museums in the news |

Welcome to our weekly news roundup of news articles about museums! A day at Saratoga’s real Museum Museum Is Literally Spitting Out Burned Exhibits Every boyfriend’s nightmare: Inside Seoul’s new handbag museum How the Gardner’s garden grows: Nursing the Gardner Museum’s plants back to health At age 30, Acton’s Discovery Museums still looking to the future Stolen [...]

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The Art Economy

Posted by Amanda Gustin on August 22, 2012 in museums in the news |

NPR did a really wonderful little story on the idea of art revitalizing a town’s struggling economy, using the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, MA, as an example. Read the article here. What do you think? Can art drive an economy? Does Mass MoCA just need a little more time? Do museums [...]

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