Museums

In our most recent WAC Weekly, we discussed the Balot NFT project, using the NFT as a tool for decolonizing museums, and what it means for the primacy of on-chain art vs. its physical counterpart. The Balot NFT reclaims a looted artifact In February, across two locations — the White Cube gallery in Lusanga (Congo) and KOW…

Being in museums gives me anxiety. I enter and I don’t know where to start. So, I straddle along, shuffle my feet, and pretend a thrash of strokes amuse me. I ask myself, “do I look introspective enough?” Am I spending enough time blanklessly staring at each piece, trying to…

Flora Exhibit №7 The puffer plant (helianthus dirigere) is a hardy perennial native to Kepler 452b. Micro undulations of the unbranched stems create a rhythmic airstream that keeps the capitula airborne. Relative distance is maintained by a mesh of nearly invisible microfibers, and the positioning of the plant as a whole is heliotropic. Puffers can travel significant distances, are most active in the spring, and have a preference for the nutrient-rich vapors at attractor “hells” throughout the Greater Cantors.

In this age of global cultural homogenization, museums have a great responsibility towards society and the world. Museums uphold our rich and glorious ethnographic heritage in the form of their collections which are primary evidences of our rich culture and they have the power to transform the world around us…

Exhibition on view at the Bullock Texas State History Museum May 7, 2022 – July 31, 2022 This summer, the Bullock Museum is pleased to host a timely exhibition that will help us better understand mental health. Planned prior to the global pandemic that began in 2020, Mental Health: Mind…

Two weeks before the pandemic, Ricco/Maresca Gallery signed a 10 year lease on a display room in Chelsea. The esteemed New York City gallery moved its entire collection, comprised solely of outsider and folk art, to a space that was double the rent and double the size. …

The Dress, Museum Ethics, and Human Remains Katie Stringer Clary May 6, 2022 Firstly: I am not a textiles conservator. I am a museum studies professor who has worked in museums for over a decade in a variety of roles including as an Executive Director and as collections manager. I…

A whirlwind biz-leisure trip to LA begets revisiting a legend lost in their prime. — Canvas LA presented a sophisticated pop-up archival museum to honor Tupac Amaru Shakur. This endeavor, aided with the permission of his Estate, promised intimate and not-before seen views into his life and struggle. Through first-person accounts in handwritten journals, clothing, and outfits from award shows and videos, attendees saw the…