The Museum as a Cultural Pivot Point By Linda Mariano In today’s world of art and art collections, it’s not unusual to find a private collection turned into a world class museum collection, but it is rare to find one that revolves around sculpture—and becomes a museum. At Austin’s UMLAUF Sculpture Garden + Museum that’s exactly what you have. The…
Planning a Winter or Spring Art jaunt? Interested in traveling to the top museums in the world? Check out our list of the must-see exhibitions happening now! San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, California Richard Mosse: Incoming | Oct. 26, 2019 – Feb. 17, 2020 From 2014 to 2016, artist Richard Mosse documented the mass migration and displacement…
ART021 Nov. 7-10, 2019 Shanghai Founded in 2013, ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair is a constituent member of the Shanghai International Arts Festival. ART021 brings together the top galleries, institutions, artists and their works from around the world, aiming at building a platform for galleries, institutions, collectors and sponsors. Get tickets: http://www.art021.org/en/Default_en.aspx Paris Photo Nov. 7-10, 2019 Grand Palais, Paris…
In the art world, artists are going back to school because collectors, auction specialists, and dealers have returned from their slowdowns in the summer to calendars full of gallery dinners, exhibitions, evening sales, and fairs. In the weeks ahead, the majority of the art galleries in most of the popular cities will be open to showcase their greatest shows. Auctioneers…
How the Imperial War Museum Uses Tech to Engage Visitors with the Past & Immerse Them in the Present
Today’s museums are increasingly relying on visual technology to immerse and engage patrons with content. IWM (Imperial War Museums) is a family of five museums and historic sites in the UK, covering war and conflict from the First World War to the present day. They strive to tell the story of people who have lived, fought and died in conflicts involving…
Emi Dammers, The Clark Hulings Fund for Visual Artists What makes a successful artist? An art career is not made just by talent or knowledge. Artists have to put in the work and practice to perfect their craft over time, and the same is true of their entrepreneurial development. The right tools for success are something that everyone is looking…
If you look at a sampling of the visual art that’s currently being produced in the United States, you will find an assortment that’s as varied as the artists who create it. You won’t, however, find all of that variety on offer in the marketplace, and that’s largely because artists are often unable to get their work to the audiences…
Anjali Srinivasan was first seduced by the medium of hot glass during an internship at a crystal company as part of her formal education at the National Institute of Fashion Technology, a design school in Delhi. Drawn to the “magical, fluid, molten glow of glass,” she went on to study glass and digital media at Rhode Island School of Design…
EXPO CHICAGO Sept. 13–17, 2017 Navy Pier, Chicago expochicago.com EXPO CHICAGO, an international exposition of contemporary and modern art, has established the city of Chicago as a preeminent art fair destination. Opening the international fall art season each September, EXPO CHICAGO takes place at historic Navy Pier, whose vast vaulted architecture hosts leading international exhibitors presented alongside one of the…
From the British Museum Collection, London If you are going to Santa Fe this summer, by all means, make sure you add the New Mexico Museum of Art to your itinerary. With an amazing list of exhibitions and events during their centennial year celebration, the museum won’t disappoint. The most exclusive exhibition is the first international venue for Lines of Thought:…
