This Saturday museums all over the country are opening their doors to visitors for FREE! Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day 2019 is a great chance to visit museums you’ve always wanted to see. Visit the Santa Barbara Museum of Art or LA-area museums such as the Autry Museum of the American West and the Japanese American…
According to the creators of Mapping the Whitney Biennial, “[m]apping these [artists’s] locations tells a story of influence and power — but also one of friendships and creative communities, of housing prices and economic change, of landscape and light. Here are some of its facets.” Methodology: Between 1932 and 1975, the Whitney’s Annual and Biennial…
After four years of work, the Getty Provenance Index® has greatly expanded its database of German art sales catalogs, adding nearly 570,000 records of artwork sales for the years 1900 to 1929. This expansion, adding to existing records for the years 1930 to 1945, gives researchers in provenance and the art market unprecedented information on…
This month the Rijksmuseum is launching its massive restoration of Rembrandt’s Night Watch. The team is posting regular videos and offering live chats with conservators, among other content-sharing of the complex work involved. The research phase begins today (July 5). More coverage in the Guardian. Among the rich offerings on the website is the section…
The New York Times had a fascinating report on all the ‘stuff’ in museum storage that never gets put on display, and is often of very low value or interest. Much of this is due to gifts from donors that come with restrictive agreements, causing a tenfold collection expansion at some institutions in the last…
The first 1,000 of Britain’s 150,000 publicly-owned sculptures have been published this week thanks to a project organized by Art UK. These works are global in nature and range in date from c. 1000 CE to modern times. The project includes photographing works that have yet to be been properly documented and the remaining works…