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For visitors to the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City, it would be “hard to imagine today a mummy or the glass model of a jellyfish next ...

Much of the literature engaging the repatriation of museum collections has focused on claims made by postcolonial nation-states, or by Indigenous ...

Coming upon Kevin the Kiteman, Jordan Casteel’s big 2016 painting in the galleries of Seattle’s Frye Art Museum, viewers might have been reminded ...

The images from Venice that traveled around the world after the Biennale in November 2019 seemed almost tailor-made for the Instagram age: tourists ...

These two recent studies of museological and display histories in/of South Asia stand out in the fields of both art history and museum studies ...

In November 2017, the Louvre Abu Dhabi opened its magnificent buildings and dome, which reflect contemplatively on the conventional white-cube ...

In the edited volume Global and World Art in the Practice of the University Museum, scholars Jane Chin Davidson and Sandra Esslinger share several ...

Near the end of Capital Culture: J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience, Neil Harris concedes ...

The obvious characteristics that distinguished Japan’s modern museums from older indigenous practices are permanent space, comprehensive collections ...

Despite the growth of museum-history scholarship in recent decades, there is still much to learn about museums’ origins and development. Kathleen ...

The third incarnation of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) opened to great fanfare in May 2016. The new building more than doubles ...

I have been carrying around Jennifer Tyburczy’s Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display for months now, and have received, understandably ...

Rachel Cohen’s clear, concise, and gracefully written retelling of the life of Bernard Berenson is far more manageable than Ernest Samuels’s long ...

Author’s note: When writing this review last summer, I could not foresee that it would be published just as depictions of anti-black violence ...

When Alexandra Stara learned the Louvre was mounting an exhibition accompanied by a catalogue with twenty-seven contributors on the same subject ...