Weekly Jobs Round-up!
Welcome to our weekly roundup of new jobs. As always, they go up immediately on their own page. Happy hunting! Education Curator [Aspen Art Museum] *About the Aspen Art Museum * The Aspen Art Museum is an accredited, globally preeminent, noncollecting institution that organizes and presents the newest, most important evolutions in international contemporary art through a [...]
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! My pick of this week is this Sun Times piece about what we’re losing in the Field Museum’s budget cuts and how much more there is to natural history museum than [...]
Weekly Jobs Round-Up!
Welcome to our weekly roundup of new jobs. As always, they go up immediately on their own page. Happy hunting! Also for those just browsing while in school, there’s a one-day job opportunity doing program evaluation: Temporary Contract Position [Randi Korn & Associates / Cambridge Science Festival] Randi Korn & Associates, Inc., a museum consulting firm, is [...]
Dispatches from the Mid-Atlantic: Vacuuming Vatican Visitors
by columnist Madeline Karp If you’ve been following the news these days, then you probably know that there is a new pope in town. It’s a big deal, but I confess, I feel kind of left out when it comes to most things Papal. As an American Jewish girl with a penchant for Zen mediation, [...]
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! But first, a sad piece of local news. The Higgins Armory Museum will close in December of this year. Their amazing staff, inventive programs, and fantastic collection have definitely captured the [...]
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! Editorial: Museum exhibit settles the question of Picasso Storyland ties fun with early literacy skills at Portland Children’s Museum Geology museum valuable to community Yemen’s Saleh opens museum – about himself [...]
Book Review: False Impressions: The Hunt for Big Time Art Fakes
reposted from editor emeritus Amanda Kay Gustin. False Impressions: The Hunt for Big Time Art Fakes Thomas Hoving This book is fairly typical of all Hoving’s popular works, which is to say it’s uncomfortably gossipy, breathtakingly arrogant, and compulsively readable. The overall narrative of the book is split into two parts, and for me it [...]
Get your art fix! (events in next two weeks)
Although we definitely don’t only focus on art museums on this blog… what can I say, the next few weeks are particularly great opportunities to see five amazing and very different shows! From hats to thousands of silicon-casts of fingers forming a prayer rug (not joking!), it’s a good week to be in the Boston [...]
Weekly Jobs Round-up!
Welcome to our weekly roundup of new jobs. As always, they go up immediately on their own page. Happy hunting! PS: Lots of fellowships, tis the season! Advancement Associate [The Virginia Museum of Natural History] (Role Title: PR & Marketing Specialist I) Position #: W0023 Salary Range: Pay Band 2 Minimum Starting Pay: $12/hr Location: Martinsville, Virginia [...]
Call for Papers: November 30 deadline!
Interested in Americana and material culture? BU is putting out a call for papers for their March conference, “Beyond Production and Consumption.” They say: We invite submissions that engage material culture from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives and that examine processes of appropriation, transformation, reclamation, or reinvention related to American material culture. The conference [...]