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A Tale of Two Museums December 20, 2024
Not long ago, after a years-long renovation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art reopened its collection of European paintings from the 14th through the 18th centuries. Just a few weeks back, the Brooklyn Museum presented a new hanging of its collection o...
America’s Sweethearts December 06, 2024
For some time, a myth about Magnum Photos swirled around photography circles. It was said that the world’s most prestigious photo agency—founded in 1947 by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, and David “Chim” Seymour—was named after an...
Museum Selfie-Takers Are Causing Damage February 22, 2024
One of the fastest-growing threats to museum collections may not be, as some members of the public think, climate protesters wielding canned goods, but a scourge of selfie-takers backing into paintings and other objects. As many visitors are increasi...
The 'Into the Wild' Bus is Now in a Museum February 19, 2024
On June 18, 2020, Carine McCandless got a call from Alaska’s Department of Natural Resources. Corri Feige, the commissioner at the time, wanted to give her a heads-up: the abandoned bus where Carine’s brother, Chris, had briefly lived and then died w...
The Deaf Artist Reinventing Conversation February 06, 2024
It’s around one in the afternoon, and Joseph Grigely is bashing his head against the wall. The wall is a white expanse of Sheetrock in a vast, high-ceilinged room on the ground floor of MASS MoCA, a contemporary-art museum in North Adams, Massachuset...
