Here’s an interesting piece by GalleristNY about “Hack the Met,” a highly unauthorized tour operating inside the Met, drawing new, young, often-techie New Yorkers into a dialogue that covers everything from medieval armor and musical instruments to Thomas Gainsborough…. with flasks. Mr. Gray, who grew …
by columnist Catherine Sigmond Last week the Exploratorium officially re-opened in its 330,000 ft. new building at Pier 15 in San Francisco after a $300 million, multi-year construction project. The new museum at Pier 15, which is three times bigger than the previous location at …
Watch it online and don’t forget to read the comments. They’ll boost your spirits back up.
Rainey Tisdale, one of our own professors here at Tufts, has been agitating for a museum to step up to collect the objects relating to the Boston Marathon bombing before they disappear. Listen to her in this interview on WBUR, which aired this morning: http://www.wbur.org/2013/04/23/saving-marathon-memorial-items.
by columnist Madeline Karp I had the good fortune to spend Passover with my cousins this year. Being closer to Philadelphia now, we don’t see our New York family members as often, so we jump at the chance to spend time with them. Especially if …
As a break from the other news that has been read, re-read, and read some more by those of us in Boston, here’s what happened in museums around the world this week.
Much like Boston, we’ll be returning to business as usual with our Dispatches from the Mid-Atlantic and Science in Museum columns next week. We hope everyone is safe and well, and our thoughts are with those who were hurt, or whose friends and family were hurt in the events this week.