Will the shrinking size of US apartments drive more people to visit museums? “If you aren’t hanging out with friends at home, you need somewhere else to go,” said Elizabeth Merritt, the founding director of the Centre for the Future of Museums, at a…
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With Boston in lockdown today, as federal agents and military search for the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, the city’s museums are closed. The Museum of Fine Arts Boston has posted on its website that the museum will be closed to the…
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Margaret Thatcher was cordially disliked by the British academic community—famously, Oxford University members voted against giving her an honorary degree—but in her belief that public institutions should give value for money and be accountable, but…
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Matthew Affron will be the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s curator of Modern art. He leaves the Fralin, the University of Virginia’s art museum, where he has organised a forthcoming exhibition “Joseph Cornell and Surrealism” with the Musée des…
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Two vast public museums in Shanghai on the site of the 2010 World Expo were due to open as we went to press. On 1 October, the city is marking China’s National Holiday by unveiling the China Art Palace in the mammoth red building that was formerly…
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Bosnia and Herzegovina’s major cultural institutions, including the National Gallery and the National Museum, which are both in the capital Sarajevo, are in danger of closing indefinitely due to a lack of funding and government support. Staff, many…
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The death of the patron and art collector Hannelore Schulhof at the age of 90 in February is raising questions about the fate of around 350 postwar and contemporary American works of art that she collected with her husband, Rudolph, who died in…
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Leading US museums are finally in recovery mode and their directors are much more optimistic about the financial outlook than a year ago, but few are feeling bullish. Endowments may have increased but they have not regained their peak of 2007. Of…
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Senior curators who want to step up and run a museum have to overcome a credibility gap in the eyes of many trustees seeking a director. Agnes Gund, the president emerita of New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), grew increasingly frustrated while…
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Crisis or not, this is Olympics year in London and the media is already bursting with optimism and pride. The stadia are ready on time and on budget; the tickets are nearly all sold, and we are hearing a well orchestrated crescendo of marketing…
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