Alberti's Window

The small "collection museum" list that I started in an earlier post has exploded into quite a large compilation, thanks to the c...

I have been doing some research on Isabella Stewart Gardner over the pas t few weeks, in hopes to present something at a conference this fal...

If there was a museum for art forgeries, would you go to it? What would be the appeal of seeing such forgeries? The underhanded element of c...

I was first introduced to the artist Lygia Clark by chance.  I was doing research in Brazil several summers ago, but arrived in Rio de Janei...

My friend Jon just sent me this article .  I was glad to see that admission is free to this museum - it would be entertaining to visit, but ...

Twenty years ago today, two armed men entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and performed one of the biggest art heists in history. I...

Caravaggio, Medusa , 1598-99 One of my students brought my attention to this recent article in the New York Times . The article highlig...

I just read this interesting blog post by a curatorial assistant at the MOMA. It looks like the major museum is slowly breaking away from ...

In true art-history-nerd fashion, I did not realize that the Super Bowl was next Sunday (February 7th) until I read this art news article f...

Anyone who reads this blog regularly can attest to my distaste for Renoir - particularly Renoir's later works. (Case in point: I used th...

I just read here about recently unveiled plans for a new addition to the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum. I'm really surprised about t...

I remember being surprised to learn that the Ghent Altarpiece (1432) that exists today is not entirely a product of the fifteenth century. ...

Lately there have been some connections between bathrooms and the discoveries of great/important art. Yep - I'm not kidding. Remember ...

I think it's cool that Jean Shin's sculptures and installations are made out of castaway objects. Her work on the right, Chemical B...

Last weekend I went to this really fantastic exhibition at the Bellevue Arts Museum (BAM). All of the artists in this exhibition create th...

Mieke Bal's book Looking In: The Art Of Viewing has forever changed the way that I look at exhibitions in art museums and galleries. I...

The Women's Studies Journal recently posted a call for article submissions regarding female art collectors. Here are some of the quest...

A few days ago, my friend Emilee asked what were my favorite museums and works of art that I have visited/seen during my travels abroad. Th...

So, apparently, good things can come from being forced to return illegally obtained works of art. After the Getty museum returned around 40...

Last Friday I went and saw this exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum. Basically, the show displayed paintings by the Impressionist painter...