“Before Tate Modern was built there was a sense that contemporary art was at the periphery of things, on the edge and even seen as not relevant to British life. It has changed so much. We can do that with design as well.”
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How Do Museums Attract New (And Younger) Audiences?
With events, says Cleveland: “For a museum trying to lure in a younger crowd, MIX provides the perfect atmosphere: Millennials mingling, DJs spinning, cocktails swirling. In the museum’s dimmed atrium, for example, visitors chat over drinks and dance in the roaming colored spotlights.”
Moralizing Museum Art? Peter Plagens Responds To Holland Cotter
“There’s not a kind of art on Earth now or in the past whose societal context doesn’t include great evils. Do we need to be told in wall text or brochures–in order to look at the art–that Victorian England was a quagmire of exploitation, that Napoleonic France was nasty, that whatever dynasty in China wasn’t exactly democratic…”
Who Owns History? (It’s Not A Simple Question)
“We often hear about the problem of hidden histories, invisible and unheard because the stories of women and minorities have been written out of mainstream narratives. But identity museums are guilty of the same sin of omission, since surrendering the authority to shape museum collections to indigenous communities hinders the understanding of the very people it claims to help.”
Italy’s Banksy Paints Over 20 Years’ Worth Of His Work To Protest Exhibition
“On Saturday night, the renowned and mysterious Italian street artist Blu went on an art-destroying spree through the streets of Bologna. The work he erased was his own – with the help of activist groups XM24 and Crash, Blu covered 20 years’ worth of massive, colorful murals with gray paint.”
The Science Behind The Darkest Black Ever Created
“The darkest shade of black isn’t a pigment at all – it’s a material called Vantablack that’s made up of billions of carbon nanotubes clustered together, and it reflects so little light that were you to spread it over a piece of wrinkled tinfoil, the wrinkles would disappear.”
Romania Wants To Buy Its Most Famous Sculpture (And Wants To Crowdfund Part Of The Cost)
“Culture Minister Vlad Alexandrescu said Thursday the government will pay 5 million euros ($5.65 million) of the 11 million-euro price for “Wisdom of the Earth.” It will ask the public to donate the rest.”
Protesting The Museum To Make It Moral
“That museums are now targets says something about their newly perceived status. Once considered standoffish, genteel and politically marginal, they are now viewed as being emblematically engaged players within the power network of global capitalism. And some are seen as using that status badly.”
Building Next Door To Bosch’s Original Studio Collapses, Shortly Before Bosch 500 Show Begins
“A medieval building that was supposed to serve as the canvas for Bosch by Night, a lightshow commissioned as part of the year-long celebrations to mark the quincentenary of Hieronymus Bosch’s death, collapsed on 27 February – days before the project’s launch in the artist’s hometown of Den Bosch in The Netherlands.”
Porters And Auctioneers From Paris’s Best-Known Auction House On Trial For Stealing 250 Tons Of Artworks
Forty of the famous “red collar” porters at the Hotel Drouot, along with four auctioneers, are accused of a mafia-style operation in which more than 6,000 items – from works by Courbet, Chagall and Matisse to Ming porcelain to Marcel Marceau’s costumes – were “lost” while in transit.