What We’re Seeing: More Empathy
As we turn the page on 2020, if we had to single out one theme that has emerged most consistently from all of the conversations we have had with museum professionals, it would be...
Nicole Ackman
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum kicks off 2021 by celebrating a Nashville bluegrass institution. In a new exhibit, the museum highlights more than four decades of Station Inn — a venerable 12th Avenue club...
Paleontological Research Institution
The Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) announced the opening of the “Warren D. Allmon Changing Climate: Our Future, Our Choice exhibit,” which will include a permanent exhibit at the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca,...
Ben Uri Gallery and Museum
Ben Uri has launched the first full scale virtual museum. The strategy to go primarily online was formulated in 2018, but has proved to be ahead of its time in a pandemic world. Is...
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, D.C. has acquired 40 works by African American artists from the Southern United States. As first reported by Zachary Small of the New York Times, the collection includes pieces by 21...
Seismique
Houston-area art fans and UFO enthusiasts, are you ready for a close encounter of the art kind? A new, interactive museum will soon touch down in Space City. The “technology-fueled experiential” art museum dubbed...
Concord Museum
Telling stories with watercolors, Loring W. Coleman painted old farms and rugged vistas that evoked – and preserved in memory – the beauty and character of a changing New England. That fading world of empty houses...
National Museum of American History
How do you put a year like 2020 into words? Decades from now, how will you remember it? They’re tough questions, but curators Sam Vong and Shannon Perich at the National Museum of American...
Museum of the City of New York
Photos taken on Staten Island during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic are on display at the Museum of the City of New York in Manhattan. The pictures were submitted by the College of Staten Island’s (CSI’s)...
SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film
Ruth E. Carter made history in 2019 by becoming the first Black person to win an Oscar for costume design for her work on “Black Panther.” It was her third nomination in a career...
Madison County Archival Library
A new exhibit, “Ink to Paper: Exploring the Advancement of Letter Writing and its Uses,” has opened at the Madison County Archival Library at 801 N. Main St., Edwardsville. In the exhibit, David Thompson...
Parrish Art Museum
The COVID-19 pandemic forced millions of businesses and organizations across the globe to pause and rethink their strategies, concoct creative solutions to new challenges and raise awareness of this evolution to keep from sinking in...
Levine Museum of the New South
In a historic photograph at the Levine Museum of the New South, a young Dorothy Counts-Scoggins makes her way up the auditorium stairs to enter her new school. A mob of white students crowd...
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
That’s the question below the surface of Nick Cave’s exhibition, “Until,” that is now on display at The Momentary, downtown Bentonville’s new contemporary art space that’s a satellite to Crystal Bridges Museum of American...
International Tennis Hall of Fame
The International Tennis Hall of Fame has launched a new digital museum exhibit that offers a comprehensive look at the history of Black tennis in America. Breaking The Barriers: The ATA and Black Tennis...
Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas
The Female Gaze exhibit illustrates how men have driven the conversation in the art world, inside the classroom and inside the museum in the past. It’s often a message of women as inferior, as...