MUSEUMS

The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the PMA Union, an affiliate of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, District Council 47, reached a tentative three-year agreement, union leaders and PMA museum director Sasha Suda announced Friday. The PMA’s board of trustees and the union’s executive committee approved the […]

Twenty years since the late Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak laid its foundation stone, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is inching closer to completion. A press release issued by Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities on 7 February gave oddly precise percentages to indicate progress. While 100% of the structural work, […]

“Women Painting Women,” which opens on May 15, presents the work of 46 female and femme-identifying portraitists whose work has been divided into four main themes: “The Body,” “Nature Personified,” “Color as Portrait,” and “Selfhood.” Included are artists like Neel, Jenny Saville, Sylvia Sleigh, and Lisa Yuskavage. In preparation for […]

Albrecht Dürer’s journal of 1520-21, written during his year-long escape to the Low Countries from his plague-ridden hometown of Nuremberg, drove Roger Fry mad. When the Bloomsbury artist and arch-rationalist came to edit a 1913 version of the Renaissance artist’s diary, he could not believe how boring it was. Instead […]

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has announced Diana Jocelyn Greenwold as the inaugural Lunder Curator of American Art and Sol Jung as the inaugural Shirley Z. Johnson Assistant Curator of Japanese Art. Greenwold, who was named to her role in September 2021, holds a BA from Yale University […]

The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, DC announced today that it would close for around two years beginning in August for a $66m renovation of its 1908 Classical Revival building. The project, for which $50m has been raised so far through a capital campaign, will include […]

The New Museum Triennial, one of the few biennials set to take place this year, has revealed an artist list for its next edition, which is due to open in October. Organized by New Museum curator Margot Norton and Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles senior curator Jamillah James, the […]

Teiger Foundation has named Larissa Harris its first executive director. In her new role, Harris will be charged with expanding the grantmaking initiative of the nonprofit, which was established in 2008 to promote the vision of contemporary art collector David Teiger, who died in 2014. Additionally, she will work to […]

Three new exhibitions will be on display when the museum’s Fifth Avenue location begins welcoming visitors again on Aug. 29. The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced on Wednesday that its landmark location on Fifth Avenue will welcome visitors five days a week, Thursday through Monday, when it reopens to the […]

As lockdown measures ease in some countries, art institutions are starting to announce their plans for reopening. Now, following temporary closures that lasted over two months, museums in one of the countries that has weathered the worst of the pandemic are beginning to open their doors once again. Among the […]