Reading Time: 3 minutes Should it become ‘a world-class public art museum’ or adhere to founder Eric Harvie’s Scottish interdisciplinary roots?
Tag: Museums
Localized and personalized: how to keep culture relevant
Reading Time: 4 minutes The world of arts and culture offers lots of examples of gross expense and imported notions of what’s important. But there are alternatives
Turning an inner-city wasteland into a thriving cultural hub
Reading Time: 4 minutes How the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, a bastion of contemporary art, resurrected a community and why others should follow its lead
Rewriting our history won’t make it go away
Reading Time: 3 minutes Historical revisionists want to rename buildings, pull down statues and rename paintings. Leave our history alone, warts and all
Banksy, and art’s uneasy alliance with capitalism
Reading Time: 3 minutes The gift shop at the Toronto exhibit offers a swath of overpriced items. What would the ultra left-wing artist think of that?
Out of the roiling heat of Montreal, into the heart of artistic genius
Reading Time: 4 minutes And a full dose of air-conditioned museum comfort certainly doesn’t hurt the appreciation of Picasso
Giverny and Monet’s Gardens
Reading Time: 3 minutes TRAVEL: Stop in Giverny at least for a few hours to wander among Monet’s gardens and you’ll feel like you’ve entered one of his paintings
A museum opts for happy hippy love bugs instead of honesty
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts exhibit mythologizes the 1960s by ignoring the dark ugliness masked by all those drug-addled smiles
Bring back the beloved passenger train
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Canadian Museum of Rail Travel in Cranbrook, B.C. offers a powerful glimpse into what life must have been like during the glory days of rail travel
Oklahoma museum celebrates Pawnee Bill
Reading Time: 4 minutes The West lives on at Oklahoma’s Pawnee Bill Ranch and Museum