Anthony Kiendl: New Director at MCA Denver
Anthony Kiendl appointed as the new director of MCA Denver, bringing extensive experience from Canadian art organizations. Kiendl aims to create access to contemporary art for a wide public in Denver.
How many visitors is too many? Paris museums confront ‘over-attendance’
Sylvain Amic, the president of the Établissement public des musées d’Orsay et de l’Orangerie (the governmental body that oversees both institutions) since April 2024, puts it plainly: “A museum’s mission is to radiate—to make known and to share its collections with the greatest number of people—so there is a contradiction in the idea of needing to limit how many can come.”
2025 Preview: 20 Museum Openings, Art Exhibitions, and Biennials to Look Forward To
Years in the making and 300,000 square feet in scale, the museum has been steadily acquiring top-dollar artworks, including a Frida Kahlo self-portrait, a Robert Colescott painting of George Washington, and archives related to Black cinema and Judith F. Baca’s Great Wall of Los Angeles.
Influencers: is it time for museums to go all in?
For a recent show about China’s Bronze Age, the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco invited a group of Bay Area content creators who specialise in textile and costume design for a private tour with the exhibition’s curator.
Appeal to save Brighton Pavilion dome after ‘devastating’ damage discovery
The Brighton pavilion has been a conservation nightmare ever since the early 19th century, when the architect John Nash completed the transformation of a relatively modest classical mansion into a fantasy Oriental palace for the wildly extravagant Prince Regent, the future George IV.