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The best museums are more than just expensive buildings that house expensive pieces of artwork. They have original exhibitions, engaging educational programs, and even tell a lot about a city's character. The Art Fund is one step closer to finding Britain's 2014 Museum of the Year, which acknowledges the very best achievements of museums across the UK. — bustler.net
Ranging from iconic national institutions to up-and-coming local galleries, six finalists continue to compete for the £100,000 prize:Pictured above: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, NorwichMary Rose Museum, PortsmouthHayward Gallery, LondonDitchling Museum of Art + Craft, East SussexTate... View full entry
As reported last week by Archinectors Ayesha Ghosh and Alex Stewart, a discussion regarding MoMA's expansion plan and the intended demolition of the American Folk Art Museum took place at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, an appropriate venue for a conversation rife with implications for... View full entry
Rendered into clean lines and bold graphic hues, Oporto-based architect and illustrator André Chiote draws some of the world's most iconic contemporary structures designed by their equally iconic architects. He began developing this project by choosing specifically-programmed buildings... View full entry
After two centuries of incremental growth, the number of correctional facilities and museums in the United States tripled, from roughly 600 prisons and 6,000 museums in 1975 to more than 1,800 prisons and 18,000 museums by 2005. — Places Journal
As unprecedented hunger strikes continue at Guantánamo Bay and in California federal prisons, two recent features on Places explore the politics and aesthetics of prison design. In an essay adapted from his book Corrections and Collections, Joe Day compares the proliferation of American... View full entry
As the commercial art world in America rides a boom unlike any it has ever experienced, another kind of art world growing rapidly in its shadows is beginning to assert itself. And art institutions around the country are grappling with how to bring it within museum walls and make the case that it can be appreciated along with paintings, sculpture and other more tangible works. — nytimes.com
Inspiring, educational, innovative and informative: these museum designs are world class. — Frame Magazine
‘Smooth, crystalline surfaces reflect the incoming light in varied ways, thus creating permanent optical changes throughout the day’ EYE Film Institute in Amsterdam, Delugan Meissl Associated Architects / Text by Lydia Parafianowicz ‘Its architectural form cuts a skyline... View full entry
Being a successful collector or dealer does not qualify one to make substantial decisions towards our collective cultural patrimony. — art&education
art&education publishes an excellent paper by Nizan Shaked. As the title suggests, it discusses and exposes the forces and conditions behind this billion dollar industry that created by power brokers and billionaire businessman and their art advisers, museum directors and... View full entry
Earlier this year we reported on the opening of the stunning Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida... We recently sat down with principal architect and Senior Vice President of HOK Yann Weymouth who enlightened us on the intricacies of the design, and what it took to get the museum built. — Inhabitat
Institutions including SFMOMA, the Whitney, the Barnes Foundation and MoMA plan various additions and exits, a boom for contemporary architects but a bust for architectural history. — latimes.com
