That’s the idea at the (former) New York Historical Society, now just New York Historical. The museum’s chief content officer knows the name isn’t perfectly grammatical, but he "likened it to the former Apple marketing campaign, 'Think different.’” - The New York Times
Curators figured out that "Gothic architecture and medieval painting influenced modern art, and began to conjecture which works, shown together, would best exemplify this trend’ - including a Van Gogh of a skeleton smoking a cigarette. - The New York Times
The Iranian-German photographer called Israel a “Zionist apartheid state” and said “Free Palestine” in her minute-long award acceptance speech. - Hyperallergic
Digital programming, online classes, offline pop-ups, and construction tours keep museums that are undergoing renovations in the eyes, and lives, of the easily distracted public. - The New York Times
At the University of Chicago, “students have about one week to peruse the collection and identify their favorites among the color lithographs by luminaries such as Joan Miró, Marc Chagall and Yves Tanguy, iconic prints by Gordon Parks and Jenny Holzer, and even a couple of Picassos.” - NPR
That’s April, 2026. “LACMA has likened Zumthor‘s design to a kind of living organism. Indeed, the raw concrete is already showing signs of weathering, with water stains and other irregularities.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
Many of the largest and most powerful art dealers are dedicating significant attention and real estate to photography. It is part of a broader renaissance for the medium that is arriving, perhaps counterintuitively, just as images produced by artificial intelligence become virtually indistinguishable from real documentation. - The New York Times
The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw sits like a bright white box on a major city street. Inside, a monumental staircase with geometric lines rises to upper floors, where large windows flood the gallery rooms with light. - AP
The Night Revels blasts through that flimsy structure of history to show us a work of detailed authentication that is nearly 1200 years old. This painting may be the first documentary in history: We know who these people are; we know their names, their professions and their relation to each other. - Brooks Riley
One of three "editions" of the piece, titled Comedian, by prankster conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan (he of the gold toilet titled America) sold five years ago for $120,000. The Sotheby's estimate for the work's upcoming resale is about ten times that. - CNN
"The proposed design is likely to please critics who feared the renowned English firm (Foster + Partners) would build a glass dome, high-rise tower or modern-looking structure that would be out of sync with (Balboa) Park’s historic Spanish Colonial Revival style." - The San Diego Union-Tribune (MSN)
Art made on Paint is often amateurish, but amateurish in a way that celebrates human flaw. Struggling to make something out of nothing — to pull an image from the mind, to represent it externally in a way that is even halfway decent — is as quintessentially human as speaking a language. - The New York Times
Yes, the Met tops the list (by Post art critics Philip Kennicott and Sebastian Smee), and museum aficionados will have heard of the others, but the order of the rankings may surprise you. - The Washington Post (MSN)
Some of these institutions are so famous that a reader may be surprised that they're considered small museums, but they are. And just about all of them are based on the collections of very wealthy individuals with particular ideas about how their art should be displayed. - The Washington Post (MSN)
"With special connections to world-class research programs and academic expertise, college art museums can compete with the best of them. Here are five of The Post's critics’ favorites, based on the quality of their collections and programming." - The Washington Post (MSN)
