Photographer Roger Ballen’s New Art Center in Johannesburg Features Displays That Are Just as Creepy as His Otherworldly Pictures

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Photographer Roger Ballen’s New Art Center in Johannesburg Features Displays That Are Just as Creepy as His Otherworldly Pictures

The Inside Out Centre for the Arts is part museum, part educational facility, part art studio, and home to a humanoid rat.

By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 6, 2023

Museums

For Years, This Historic 225-Ton Landscape Art Installation Was at Risk of Demolition—Now It Officially Has a New Home

The reconfigured piece by Elyn Zimmerman had been renamed "Sudama."

By Sarah Cascone, Apr 6, 2023

Museums

An Art Expert Has Made a Startling Claim: The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Vermeer Copy May Actually Be the Real Thing

The version of the work at London's Kenwood House has long been accepted as the original.

By Sarah Cascone, Apr 5, 2023

Museums

The National Portrait Gallery Raised Just Half the Sum to Buy a Classic Joshua Reynolds Portrait. So the Getty Museum Brought the Rest

The institutions will jointly acquire the painting, with plans to send the work back and forth between the U.S. and U.K.

By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 31, 2023

Museums

The Vatican’s Parthenon Marble Fragments Have Officially Entered the Collection of the Acropolis Museum in Athens

The objects are back in Greece after a repatriation ceremony on March 24.

By Sarah Cascone, Mar 27, 2023

Museums

Mets Fans! Wear Your Hats Tomorrow and Get Free Admission to the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Opening day of Major League Baseball is just around the corner.

By Sarah Cascone, Mar 24, 2023

Museums

See Inside the Reopened Rembrandt House Museum, Which Now Displays Nearly a Third More of the Dutch Golden Age Master’s Stuff

The new displays include artifacts dug up from a cesspit outside the building.

By Sarah Cascone, Mar 24, 2023

Museums

Workers at the Hispanic Society Museum Have Voted to Strike Following Stalled Negotiations for a Union Contract

The museum's staff first filed their intention to unionize in May 2021.

By Sarah Cascone, Mar 23, 2023

Museums

How Will Technology Shape the Museum of Tomorrow? 20 Museum Directors Will Convene in the Bay Area to Explore Digital Horizons

They will be participating at an open symposium taking place on April 21 at Stanford University.

By Min Chen, Mar 22, 2023

Museums

The New Museum Has Named Two Star Curators the Co-Organizers of Its Sixth Triennial, Set for 2026

The show will be the first Triennial to take place after the completion of the museum’s major expansion project.

By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 21, 2023

Museums

The Centre Pompidou Is Lending Its Brand to a New Museum in Seoul, Expanding Its Portfolio of International Outposts

The Paris-based institution has agreed to license its name and works from its collection for a four-year period.

By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 20, 2023

Museums

Artists and Museums Have Heroically Raised $30 Million to Keep a Historic Portrait From Leaving Britain. Will It Be Enough?

The National Portrait Gallery in London has raised about half the sum required to buy Sir Joshua Reynolds’s “Portrait of Omai.”

By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 10, 2023

Museums

Whitney Museum Director Adam Weinberg Will Step Down After 20 Years, Paving the Way for Curator Scott Rothkopf to Succeed Him

Weinberg oversaw the Whitney’s move downtown and helped grow museum attendance, membership, and staff size.

By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 8, 2023

Museums

An Indiana University’s Faculty Have Voted to Halt Its Controversial Plan to Deaccession Three Masterpieces Worth Over $20 Million

The vote came just one day after the Association of Art Museum Directors threatened to sanction the museum if the sale went ahead.

By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 7, 2023

Museums

The Pope Has Put a Horse, a Bearded Man, and a Boy—All Marble Fragments Looted From the Parthenon—on a Trip Back to Greece

The Vatican is calling the restitution a "donation."

By Min Chen, Mar 7, 2023