Museums Are Here

A blog celebrating the resiliency of museums

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Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

Photographer Carrie Mae Weems and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art are teaming up to use art to encourage prevention and awareness of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Black, Indigenous and people of...

Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

Moving from the late days of segregation in the Deep South to the new wave of activism inspired by Black Lives Matter constitutes a long, complicated arc. You might think a series of documentaries...

Denver Art Museum

Every successful museum director leaves a legacy with the institution he or she leads. In the case of Christoph Heinrich, who has headed the Denver Art Museum since 2010, that will most likely center...

New Mexico Museum of Art

A new exhibit at the New Mexico Museum of Art explores something critical many take for granted. The show called “Breath Taking” comes as respiratory health has become a big concern during the pandemic. The...

Boise Art Museum

People view the world through subjective lenses but one way to open up different perspectives is to view the arts. Boise Art Museum is presenting a new exhibition that hopes to do just that,...

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art has experimented from time to time with installations or temporary exhibitions that mix historical and contemporary art. But it has probably never done so well in this vein as...

The Art Institute of Chicago

Getting “Bisa Butler: Portraits” before the public has been a struggle against COVID-19 from the start. Days before the exhibition of the artist’s extraordinary and ebullient quilted portraits of African Americans was to premiere...

The Samuel Dorsky Museum

Much has been written about Carl Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious, a belief that all humans share a collective ancestral knowledge and imagery described as archetypes. After living through 2020, it seems that...

New Museum

On Sunday, September 15, 1963, four black girls were slain in an explosion at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The bombing was instigated by four Ku Klux Klansmen. “These children,” Martin Luther...

Museum of Latin American Art

The pieces in the Museum of Latin American Art’s new “Herland: Women Artists from the MOLAA Collection” exhibit cover topics such as race, social injustice and female empowerment. And it’s coming to viewers at...

Telfair Academy

Museums were intended to be centers for learning and spaces to educate the public. Our current understanding and approach to these institutions grew from a human impulse to collect, categorize, and understand. To make...

Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

Where Asmaa Walton saw an opportunity to fill in a blindspot, she took it — by building a project that put Black visual artists and culture front-and-center. That’s why she started the Black Art Library, which has jumped...

Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Black Refractions is the first art exhibit of its kind in Utah, featuring 100 works by black artists from the famed Studio Museum in Harlem. “Black refractions really reflects about 100 years of creative...