Museums
NEW YORK — Want to add some excitement to your annual spring cleaning? Don’t forget that you can donate old clothes, books, and trinkets to the Museum of Modern Art — at least for a few weeks. The New York institution is accepting second-hand items from the public that will be sorted, displayed, and sold this fall in the museum’s atrium...
More than a year after the fall of former president Ben Ali, contemporary art is gathering momentum in Tunisia. Several initiatives have started across the country despite the new government's conservatism. They demonstrate a fresh energy crystallised by the launch of Carthage Contemporary, an umbrella program located in Carthage's...
PARIS — This Saturday is the eighth annual European Night of Museums, and as night falls 3,000 European museums will be outdoing themselves to show off their collections in the most inventive ways possible. With the support of UNESCO, the Council of Europe, the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, and the International Council...
Museum buildings have long been a redoubt of architectural innovation and a dependable method for institutions to refresh their images and programming — just look at the Guggenheim Bilbao, whose name has become synonymous with museum-led urban renewal. Given that new buildings and renovations are a rare occasion, what’s another way...
Tomorrow, the new home of the Photographers' Gallery in Ramillies Street, Soho, will officially open to the public. And the elegant building, redeveloped by architects O'Donnell + Tuomey, makes a spectacular debut with a powerful Edward Burtynsky exhibition. Gathering more than thirty large-scale pictures, the show traces the Canadian...
For many galleries, moving into a ground-floor space is a rite of passage. For a museum whose primary function is to serve the public, such a move is all the more significant. Late this summer, the staff of MOCA Cleveland will leave its retrofitted location on the second floor of a former department store and set up shop inside a brand-...
PHILADELPHIA — "If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead," Benjamin Franklin is said to have advised, "either write something worth reading or do things worth writing." The late Dr. Albert C. Barnes, whose namesake Foundation opens its new home on Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia's Center City on Saturday, did many...
NEW YORK — During the ’90s, the space at 222 12th Avenue was once the location of the bass-pounding, drug-fueled nightclub Tunnel, which was immortalized in “Sex and the City” and Bret Easton Ellis’s “American Psycho.” But last night it held a more subdued gathering as the venue for the Whitney Museum’s 21st Annual American Art Award...
Since it was proposed in the Budget last March, the government's plans to cap tax relief on major donations at £50,000 (or 25% of a donor's income) from April 2013 has proved extremely controversial. Two thirds of the ruling coalition's MPs want the proposal scrapped and a new survey by ComRes has shown that seven out of ten Conservative...
The charity Art Fund, which supports the work of museums and galleries across the UK, has announced its shortlist for the £100,000 Museum of the Year Award.The Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, and the Watts Gallery, near...
