Tag: Museums
Baltimore Museum Guards Take Seats at the Curators’ Table
BALTIMORE — Museum guards have been a focal point of unionizing efforts and equity and safety conversations sweeping…
Whitney Biennial Curators Seek American Art on the Border
TIJUANA, Mexico — The frontier shapes this metropolis, most obviously in the form of the omnipresent border wall…
My Artist Ghost
On an overcast late July day thick with humidity and dampening drizzles, I headed from Manhattan toward the…
The Museum Ships and Submarines That Are National Landmarks
PhiladelphiaThe white-and-buff protected cruiser Olympia, found at the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia, was Commodore George Dewey’s flagship…
Lauren Halsey Chosen for Met Roof Installation
Lauren Halsey, 34, an artist from South Central Los Angeles who often makes site-specific installations and also founded…
Met Museum Names a Mexico City Architect to Lead a New Major Project
The Mexican architect Frida Escobedo, who at 38 was the youngest architect to design the Serpentine Pavilion in…
Charles Ray Is Pushing Sculpture to Its Limit
“When you get to the more volatile social subject matter, I often think it starts as a provocation…
Theodore Roosevelt Statue Removal Begins at Museum of Natural History
It was past midnight when a crane descended on the imposing bronze statue of Theodore Roosevelt, lifting his…
New Research Tracks Ancient Artifacts Looted by the Nazis
When the Nazis invaded Greece in 1941, Julius Ringel, a major general in the German army, took an…