Jun
19
Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s new music video was filmed entirely at the Louvre museum. What messages hide in the histories of the featured artworks?
Nov
16
How did Anita Brenner, a Mexican-born, American Jewish writer and journalist use art to try to bridge the gap between the United States and Mexico?
Sep
30
Artist Glenn Ligon grounds his work in American history, addressing the inextricable link between history of slavery and the black experience in the U.S.
Sep
27
Art by Mexican “Radical Women” artists capture the turbulent times of the feminist movement in Mexico in the 1970s and still ring true today.
Sep
03
Prior to discussions about appropriation art, artist Hock E Aye Vi (Hachivi) Edgar Heap of Birds honored the 40 executed Dakota men in “Building Minnesota.”
Aug
21
SFMOMA recently made headlines with its digital campaign to make art go viral with their Send Me SFMOMA project — but what museum exhibits came before this?
Aug
01
Can the Olympics increase museum attendance in both the long and short-term? Carol Scott and her team proved just that.
Jul
26
In celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s 90th birthday, more than 150 different outfits are on display in an exhibition entitled “Fashioning a Reign.”
Oct
06
Environmental art is an urgent call to action: visitors hopefully will be moved enough to both learn and change habits in order to decrease their environmental footprint(s) on earth. Reactions to Eco-art are often complicated, comprised of a juxtaposition of feelings — aesthetically pleasing, depressing, instructive, foreboding, compelling, informative, deeply moving, and hopefully deeply motivating.
Sep
08
The Guerrilla Girls began using public billboards as their medium with minimalist advertising-inspired font and graphics as their mode. And their message? The very numbers that first appalled them at the museum became their weapon and message of choice.
