Flowers Through Facebook: Reuniting 5 of Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”

Flowers Through Facebook: Reuniting 5 of Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”

Can you think of a flower that better depicts a warm, late-summer afternoon than a sunflower? The curators of museums in Philadelphia, London, Amsterdam, Munich, and Tokyo didn’t think so this past Monday, August 14, when they decided to host a live social media event 

Paid Internships [Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT]

Paid Internships [Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT]

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Rethinking Relevance

Rethinking Relevance

Be relevant. Is there a phrase we’ve recently heard more often than this one in the museum field? It’s tossed around a lot. So much so, in fact, that I’m getting kind of tired of it. But these past few months I’ve had multiple conversations 

Thoughts on the Berkshire Museum’s Proposal to Sell 40 Pieces.

Thoughts on the Berkshire Museum’s Proposal to Sell 40 Pieces.

In recent weeks, the museum world media has been inundated with the articles regarding the Berkshire Museum’s plan to auction off 40 pieces of art in its collections to support a $60 million renovation and expansion. As expected, the auction proposal was met with criticism 

Internship [Step Into Art, Boston, MA]

Internship [Step Into Art, Boston, MA]

Step Into Art is a non-profit museum education organization that provides dynamic, content-rich programs for children in partnership with Boston schools. Each of our programs features art from a selected Boston museum and engages children in art-viewing, art-making, and writing. For the 2017-2018 school year,