Museums are in trouble. That’s not news to anyone in the field right now. We need big ideas to take us forward into this next century – we need to reimagine what we’re doing, and why, and how. Your guess is as good as mine …
Welcome to the third week of Museums in the News! Highlight this week is the lawsuit filed by Chuck Kortlander, director & owner of the Custer Battlefield Museum. Apparently in 2005 and 2008 his home, business, and the museum were raided by two dozen armed …
Have you ever been to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s After Hours program for tasty cocktails, fabulous art, and interesting conversation?
What are you waiting for?
This Thursday, December 16, the Gardner will be hosting its last Gardner After Hours until after their new wing opens in 2012.
Students get in for $5 with ID, and rumor has it that the Fall 2010 members of ED280, Museum Education and Interpretation, will be crashing the party to see their fearless leader, Jen DePrizio (also known as Director of Visitor Learning at the Gardner) in action.
Care to join? Get your tickets today!
Couldn’t make it to the NEMA fall conference? Missed the panel you were dying to see? For the first time ever, NEMA has taped several sessions and provided them free of charge on their website for download. Run, don’t walk, and listen to all of …
Following up on those essential skills from Museos Unite, here’s an opportunity to get some free management training. Project Management Webinars from Boston University Upcoming webinars are listed at the top, but scroll down for other titles. A few to highlight: What You Must Know …
Welcome to Week 2 of the Museums in the News roundup!
Probably the biggest museum news of the week comes from the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Curators there removed a video art installation of an ant-covered crucifix after complaints from, among others, the Catholic League and members of Congress. It’s a complicated, controversial issue, and the first few links below are just the tip of the iceberg. If you know of any other good articles, drop a line in the comments.
Ant-covered Jesus video removed from Smithsonian after Catholic League complains
Gallery vows ongoing protest against Smithsonian
The GOP and the artist who spoiled yet another Christmas
Pulled from National Portrait Gallery, Video Emerges Elsewhere in Washington
Gay Portraiture Exhibit Sparks Funding Debate
Some other exciting news this week that isn’t currently related to museums, but hopefully will be soon: Picasso’s electrician reveals artist’s ‘treasure trove’
Art in the Time of Midterms: Museum as Democracy and the MCA’s New Show. Very, very good and thoughtful exhibition review.
Let’s Exhibit Interest in Troubled Museum (Jack Diem Museum of Natural History in Fort Wayne, IN)
Museum Looking for Soldiers’ Stories (Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum in Waterloo, Iowa)
O’Keeffe Museum Hopes to Shed One “Canna” (Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Edgar Degas masterpiece stolen more than three decades ago going home to France (Malraux Museum, Normandy, France)
Noah’s Ark and Tower of Babel to be built at Kentucky Amusement Park (Creation Museum, Petersburg, Kentucky)