Museums & Institutions The Aldrich Museum Is Updating Its Landmark Feminist Art Show From 1971 With a New Generation of Women Artists Lucy Lippard's landmark 1971 exhibition was one of the first to acknowledge the institutional invisibility of women artists. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 13, 2021
Museums & Institutions Baltimore Museum Employees Are Planning to Unionize as a Nationwide Labor Movement Takes Hold in U.S. Art Institutions The workers are calling for better job security and fair pay. By Caroline Goldstein, Oct 5, 2021
Museums & Institutions 7 Exhibits From L.A.’s Academy Museum That Show How It Rethinks Hollywood History, From Boundary-Breaking Oscar Fashion to Problematic Makeup Collections curator Nathalie Morris explains the stories of some of the carefully considered objects on display. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 1, 2021
Museums & Institutions Bug Infestations at Museums Surged During Lockdown. Here’s How They Are Fighting Back to Defend Their Art From Pesky Critters Institutions are reaching for innovative solutions to combat pests. Among them: micro-wasps. By Naomi Rea & Eileen Kinsella, Sep 30, 2021
Museums & Institutions Spain Approves $42 Million for the Prado Museum’s Long-Awaited Expansion, Set to Debut in 2024 The project is getting the green light after six years of delays. By Kate Brown, Sep 29, 2021
Museums & Institutions The New Museum Is Launching a $400,000 Prize for New Work by Female Sculptors, One of the Largest Art Awards in the United States The award comes with the production of a new work that will be installed on the New York museum's forthcoming plaza. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 28, 2021
Museums & Institutions In an Expansion, the Rubell Museum Will Bring Its Tastemaking Private Art Collection to Washington, D.C., Next Year The project has been in the works for more than a decade, but is finally nearing completion. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 24, 2021
Museums & Institutions A Group of Nigerian Artists Have an Offer for the British Museum: Return the Benin Bronzes and We’ll Give You New Ones in Exchange The British Museum has been noncommittal in its stance on repatriating the historic artifacts. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 23, 2021
Museums & Institutions After Nearly a Decade of Planning, the Academy Museum of Moving Pictures Is Ready for Its Close Up—and It’s Not Hiding Its Flaws The $482 million, 300,000-square-foot facility aims to move away from a singular story of American cinema. Will the public buy it? By Janelle Zara, Sep 22, 2021
Museums & Institutions Picasso’s Daughter Is Donating Nine Artworks by Her Father to a Paris Museum to Settle a Tax Bill The works will go on view at the museum in the spring of 2022. By Caroline Goldstein, Sep 22, 2021
Museums & Institutions How Will Berlin’s Embattled Humboldt Forum Deal With Its Imperialist Past? Its New Asian and Ethnological Museums Provide Clues The Humboldt Forum has opened its two most controversial institutions yet. By Quynh Tran, Sep 21, 2021
Museums & Institutions ‘We Gave Them a Lot of Authority to Guide Us’: How the Native Tribes of Oklahoma Are Helping Shape the New First Americans Museum After languishing for 15 years, the Oklahoma City museum is opening to the public at last. By Sheila Regan, Sep 14, 2021
Museums & Institutions Klaus Biesenbach Is Heading Back to Berlin to Lead the Newly Reopened Neue Nationalgalerie Museum Meanwhile, Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrat, a curatorial duo, will co-lead the Hamburger Bahnhof museum. By Kate Brown, Sep 10, 2021
Museums & Institutions Accused of Hampering Research, the National 9/11 Museum in New York Will Ease Requirements for Scholars The museum previously reserved the right to review work prior to publication and require edits. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 9, 2021
Museums & Institutions Hong Kong’s M+ Museum Has Removed Ai Weiwei’s Famous Tiananmen Square Photo From Its Website While It Awaits Government Review The development coincides with news that the long-awaited museum will open on November 12. By Vivienne Chow, Sep 7, 2021
