by columnist Cira Louise Brown When I tell people that I’m going to school for Museum Studies, I often encounter confusion about what the profession actually entails (“you’re going to be a curator? … what is a curator?”). Once I explain that I want to …
I love novels. I hope to publish one someday. I read them constantly. I use the margins to write notes cheering characters on, or chastising them for behaving badly. I give novels to friends. I organize them on shelves first alphabetically, then when that gets …
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!
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 …
by columnist Madeline Karp Lately, a series of weird things have been happening at my museum. A short while back, Philadelphia had massive wind and rainstorms. In a matter of two weeks, we experienced no less than two power failures and a flood. It sounds …
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!
Also, in honor of Valentine’s Day, The Museum of Broken Relationships popped up again. While more a travelling exhibit than anything else, this crowd-sourced project is definitely worth a look: Legacies of love showcased at the Museum of Broken Relationships