#museum-curation tag

Remembering Lucia Di Luciano, Rosa von Praunheim, and Kathleen Goncharov

Prominent figures across painting, film, curation, collecting, and archaeology passed away, leaving significant contributions to modern art, queer cinema, museums, and Maya research.

Science

fromHarvard Gazette

1 month ago

Memorial Minute for Karel Frederik Liem, 73 - Harvard Gazette

Karel Frederik Liem combined distinguished ichthyological scholarship, exceptional teaching, dedicated museum curation, and playful collegiality across a long Harvard and international career.

Arts

fromARTnews.com

1 month ago

Hard Truths: How Can a Curator at a Big Museum Evade Invisibility?

Museum curators can be underpaid, constrained by restrictive ethics policies, and spend time managing artists and institutional politics instead of exercising autonomy.

Fashion & style

fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events

2 months ago

With the help of exhibitions, Jeanne Lanvin's eponymous fashion house is keeping her legacy alive

Jeanne Lanvin built a lasting couture and interiors legacy preserved through archives and sustained by collaborations and contemporary artistic leadership.

Arts

fromwww.theguardian.com

2 months ago

Sheila Canby obituary

Sheila Canby devoted over four decades to Islamic and Iranian art, curating major exhibitions and expanding museum galleries internationally.

fromwww.orartswatch.org

3 months ago

The Cultural Landscape

My aspirations have remained the same: to document the contemporary cultural landscape and to produce a decent photograph a photograph that acknowledges the medium's allegiance to reality and that preserves for myself and others a unique and honest sense of the subject. The environmental details have been kept to a minimum. The subjects have the frame to themselves and do not compete with context for attention. This provides for a simpler, blunter, more intense encounter with character. It is character that animates the image.

Photography

History

fromThe Nation

4 months ago

Slavery Was Not Just Forced Labor but Sexual Violence Too

Chattel slavery involved widespread, horrific sexual violence, including the systematic sexual exploitation and sadistic abuse of enslaved children, often erased from public history.

fromThe New Yorker

5 months ago

Remembrance of Scents Past

Tasha Marks, a scent designer, creates historical odors for museums to enable visitors to experience the past through smell, as seen at the British Library.