Tag Archives: Museums

Museums Around the Country Explore Democracy

This article is part of the Fine Arts & Exhibits special section on the art world stretching boundaries with new artists, new audiences and new technology. It’s always nice to put a face to a name, and visitors to the new exhibition at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston — “Power …

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A Chicago Museum Looks at How Painting Has Evolved

This article is part of the Fine Arts & Exhibits special section on the art world stretching boundaries with new artists, new audiences and new technology. Back in 1838, Louis Daguerre captured the first photo of a human being with revolutionary technology. Not long after, the French painter Paul Delaroche …

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These Museum Exhibits Have To Be Smelled To Be Believed

This article is part of the Fine Arts & Exhibits special section on the art world stretching boundaries with new artists, new audiences and new technology. It’s rare to experience art in a nearly totally dark room. But last year at the National Nordic Museum in Seattle, that’s where visitors …

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Art Museums Reach Out to Visitors From Behind Closed Doors

This article is part of the Fine Arts & Exhibits special section on the art world stretching boundaries with new artists, new audiences and new technology. When you think of museums or galleries or auction houses you can’t help but think of buildings. Sometimes old stately stone ones with statues …

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Art Can Fight Climate Change in More Ways Than One

This article is part of the Fine Arts & Exhibits special section on the art world stretching boundaries with new artists, new audiences and new technology. Visitors to the Hammer Museum’s show “Breath(e) Toward Climate and Social Justice” will be greeted by powerful works portraying the widespread impact of ecological …

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Draw Sports Fans to an Art Museum? That’s the Goal.

As museums experiment with ways of attracting new visitors beyond a niche audience of art lovers, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has assembled an ambitious exhibition anchored in a subject with wide appeal: sports. Occupying over 13,000 square feet and the museum’s entire seventh floor, “Get in the …

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