Its latest online collection, "Open Heritage," features digitized, 3D models of over 25 locations from around the world, from the ancient Mayan metropolis of Chichen Itza in Mexico to the pr…
"Art lending libraries function like traditional book libraries: individuals can borrow an artwork, enjoy it in their own home, and return it by a due date with little to no fee. They have a…
"Tokyo-based designer Kosuke Takahashi has redesigned the tactile script to make it readable for both visually impaired and sighted individuals. His new typeface, Braille Neue, updates the n…
"A deeply layered, rigorously controlled formal structure undermined by a strange embarrassing whimsy occurs in almost every painting. While accepted in outlier artists like James Castle, or…
Christopher Marcisz makes the case that people don't go to the Berkshire Museum for art (the area has better art museums already) and barely remember the paintings they see there. People - s…
"For the better part of a year, students, faculty, staff, librarians, museum professionals, artists, and many members of the public [in Austin] worked tirelessly to protest further removal o…
Just whoa: "Alexander Calder, who famously rejected the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1976 as a form of protest against the Vietnam War, would be extremely surprised to learn that the con…
Are Indiana Jones and Lara Croft really meant to inspire kids to go into archaeology? "Although the character of Indiana Jones arguably raised the profile of archaeology as a whole, and Lara…
The "Statue of Unity", a 600-foot-tall figure of Sardar Vallabhbai Patel (an anti-colonial leader who became independent India's first deputy prime minister), is going up on a small island i…
The Museum of Ice Cream. The Museum of Feelings. The Candy Museum. And, inevitably, the Museum of Selfies. Mitchell Kuga argues that these often-corporate-sponsored projects (the Museum of F…
Whew: "Tensions over the role of galleries in the gentrification of the predominantly working-class Boyle Heights neighborhood have often swirled around 356 Mission, one of the district's la…
"The Cimetière du Montparnasse is at risk of losing one of two of its most distinctive occupants. A famous Constantin Brancusi sculpture of a couple embracing, Le Baiser (The Kiss, 1909), h…
A new tourist attraction in Bandung, Indonesia, called Rabbit Town features installations that bear extraordinary resemblances to Chris Burden's Urban Light (at the entrance to LACMA), Yayoi…
"The Museum of Modern Art (MAM) in Rio de Janeiro announced on Sunday that it is selling the only Jackson Pollock painting currently on public view in Brazil. The museum expects the work, N�…
"Guards in New York City's museums spend most of their shifts on their feet - usually four to eight hours at a time. They should also be able to carry as much as 25 pounds, trudge up and dow…
"As libraries create access to a digital future, the books that have traditionally inhabited them are being displaced at an alarming rate. This leaves many asking: Does acceptance of digital…
The status to be moved is of songwriter Stephen Foster - and, in words written at the time the status was created in 1900, "an old darkey reclining at his feet strumming negro airs upon an o…
Some observers see Molesworth's ouster as symptomatic of a struggle between her progressive ideals and the status quo, epitomized by Vergne who curated three shows of white male artists "…
It's even more fitting than you think: not only has the world's only celebrity guerrilla artist tagged the Big Apple with an image of its emblematic mammal, he's made it represent the city's…
In the middle of a 700,000-woman demonstration on International Women's Day, the collective Nosotras Proponemos ("We Propose") presented a manifesto of 37 demands. "Out of the 47 major exhib…
Looks like somebody was missing the Maurizio Cattelan solid-gold toilet (the one titled America) that was in the same bathroom last year (and which was not actually lent to Donald Trump's Wh…
"New data released Tuesday suggest that in a single year, the US arts and culture sector contributed a whopping $763.6 billion to the nation's economy - more than the entire GDP of Switzerla…
"In the summer of 2016, while digging the new Metro C subway line in Rome, workers came across a rare archeological find, a 2nd-century CE Roman barracks. Late last week, archeologists uncov…
Roberta Mazza of the University of Manchester writes about her search for the origins of a Coptic fragment of Paul's Letter to the Galatians that appeared on eBay in 2008 and ended up - like…
Noting that "many commentators often conflate 'museum' with 'art museum'," Bob Beatty points out that there are far more history museums than art museums in this country. Oddly, attendance f…