All posts in museum workers

Ahdaf Soueif resigns from British Museum’s board of trustees

Katherine Keener 26 July 2019

Finding transparency in an opaque art world

Maria Trujillo 18 June 2019

Leading lights - Experts

Museums present visual art as beautiful things you can touch

Art Critique 16 October 2019

Leading lights - Artists

Towards postmodernism: the emergence of artists from Coenties Slip

Orianne Castel 16 October 2019

Leading lights - Artists

Statue by Vinnie Bagwell to replace controversial monument in Central Park

Katherine Keener 14 October 2019

Must see - Exhibitions

Egyptian Mummies: Exploring Ancient Lives

Brandon Lorimer 13 October 2019

Must see!

Urs Fischer makes candle portrait of Leonardo DiCaprio for Gagosian show

For a few years now, Leonardo DiCaprio has been a vocal environmental activist, working to raise awareness about the catastrophic effects of global warming. More specifically, and as seen in his 2016 documentary Before the Flood, DiCaprio focused on showing the dramatic speed at which polar glaciers are melting. DiCaprio now finds himself melting, or […]

Paris exhibition casts El Greco under new light

The first major exhibition in France for the renowned Greek artist, Doménikos Theotokópoulos (1541-1614), better known as El Greco, opened yesterday at the Grand Palais. A total of seventy-six works are on display, ranging from his early Greek iconography to his late career portraits made when he was Toledo, Spain. El Greco, while mostly known […]

Egyptian Mummies: Exploring Ancient Lives

When one thinks about historical Egyptian culture, it is hard not to think beyond the scope of what popular media and our education have focussed on: the great pyramids, the curious pantheon, the rules of pharaohs, the traditions with death, and, of course, mummies. And while “Egyptian Mummies: Exploring Ancient Lives” at the Montreal Museum […]

Louvre reinstalls the Mona Lisa in the updated Salle des États

Extreme makeover Louvre Edition is offically complete and the Mona Lisa is back in her home gallery after a three-month stint in a neighbouring gallery. When the Mona Lisa moved to the Medici Gallery back in July, it was the first time the painting had moved from its place in the Salle des États in […]