What about the poster for “Little Miss Sunshine”? LIPPERT This is a daring and exciting poster because of all the negative space. She chose to essentially not use two-thirds of the poster and have it be a bright school bus yellow that’s pushing down on the family, and they’re all
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At TEFAF Art Fair, Museums Make Up for Shrinking Private Sales
“This would be a bold acquisition to make,” said Frederick Ilchman, the chair of European paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He and his team of curators were gazing, fascinated, at a 16th-century portrait of Antonietta Gonzales, a girl with hypertrichosis, a rare congenital condition that causes excessive
Some of the British Museum’s Stolen Gems are Now on Display
For six months, a team at the British Museum has been working with police to recover hundreds of engraved gems and other items of jewelry that museum officials say a former curator stole from its store rooms. The team has also been planning an exhibition. “Rediscovering Gems,” occupying a room
To Make Blockbuster Shows, Museums Are Turning to Focus Groups
Last January, 14 members of the British public entered a wood-paneled room in the back of the British Museum for a secret presentation. They were there to learn about an exhibition still in development, which the museum wanted kept under wraps. Onscreen in a prerecorded video, the museum’s curator of
Leading Museums Remove Native Displays Amid New Federal Rules
The American Museum of Natural History will close two major halls exhibiting Native American objects, its leaders said on Friday, in a dramatic response to new federal regulations that require museums to obtain consent from tribes before displaying or performing research on cultural items. “The halls we are closing are
Hands-On Art at the Brooklyn Museum’s New Education Center
It could easily be an alien civilization: Its citizens have no gender, no organized religion, no formal government. They inhabit a lush ecosystem of candy-colored vegetation, where plants can grow infinitely tall. Residents travel on driverless, ring-shaped buses that hover in the atmosphere. A single year lasts more than two
Walmart heir wants museums to attract more people and donates $40 million to help
The Museo de Arte in Puerto Rico is one of 64 art museums receiving grants as part of a new initiative called “Access for All” funded by Alice Walton’s Art Bridges foundation. Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico hide caption toggle caption Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico The Museo
Schiele Works Believed to Be Stolen Are Seized From U.S. Museums
New York investigators on Wednesday seized three artworks from three out-of-state museums that they said had been stolen from a Jewish art collector killed during the Holocaust and rightly belonged to the Nazi victim’s heirs. The Manhattan district attorney’s office issued warrants to the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie
A Scandal and Its Fallout Compound the British Museum’s Woes
Its digital archives include records for 4.5 million items, or about half the collection. The patchiness of the catalog has been the subject of criticism for decades. In 1988, the National Audit Office, a government watchdog, said in a report that the museum’s stock-taking and inventories were “unsatisfactory.” Because of
Relationships Carved From Clay Bring New Partners to Museums
Claudia Mitchell, a potter from Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico, gathers clay on a mesa between two sandstone rock formations, hammer and pick at the ready. First she gives thanks to the Clay Mother — the Earth — in prayers and offerings that include a sprinkling of cornmeal, a small