Museums
Decades before New York's Central Park was created, Green-Wood Cemetery's ponds, hills and winding paths provided not only a pastoral final resting place for the nation's elite but also a recreational spot for picnics and horse-drawn buggies.The still-...
In a thoughtful and critical series under the "Modern Art Notes" rubric, ARTINFO contributor Tyler Green parachutes into North American museums for brief and salient reviews of their exhibitions, and the institution's general aesthetic and...
DALLAS — “Hello. You can definitely take a picture if you want.”That’s how a security guard named Gary Mathis greeted this reporter on a recent visit to the design galleries at the Dallas Museum of Art. Before long, he was directing my attention to a chair...
In a year already piqued with anticipation and littered with gifts, Saskatoon’s Mendel Art Gallery just received some more good news. The BMO Financial Group has gifted a pair of Kim Adams sculptures to the gallery’s permanent collection, the pair of...
After the announcement struck, last week, that a $1-million cutback to Newfoundland’s revered gallery, The Rooms, (what is 15 % of their overall operating budget), the repercussions are beginning to amass. Thirteen positions have been cut, including the...
Opening this weekend, the V&A exhibition “David Bowie is” reveals a first-ever retrospective and new, up-close look at cultural icon whose work continues to influence music, fashion, film, and art. While not directly involved with the show,...
The New Museum’s “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and More Star” conjures the strongest and most uncomfortable feelings of nostalgia I’ve felt in years – which is the whole point. The star-packed, vintage hodgepodge of political...
A year after landing the job, Art Gallery of Windsor curator, Srimoyee Mitra, has opened her first significant undertaking at the institution, with the first of a three-part exhibition that examines borders and the questions around nationhood, belonging...
The last week has been something of a rollercoaster of news about the Los Angeles museum world. First, after months — years, even! — of financial turmoil, LACMA officially submitted a bid at the end of February offering merge with the troubled L.A. MOCA and...
A private museum at the Moscow exhibition center famous for its grandiose Soviet-era exhibition pavilions has caused quite a controversy by putting on display a statue of the Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin.The statue was placed in a special dark room to...