The Getty Museum has decided to publish a book Off the Walls to be released in the US on September 22.
Girl Power in DC
While many programs on the agenda have been postponed or are taking place online, when the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History reopens sometime this fall, it will proceed with the exhibition Girlhood (It’s complicated), which examines the experiences of young women, past and present, growing up in America.
Openings and Closings: September 16 to September 22
Check out what’s going on in person and online at museums in the U.S. and abroad!
A More Perfect Union
How curators interpret figural ceramics from long ago—or, indeed, walls full of portrait paintings—may seem of modest importance, compared to the seismic shifts in public consciousness that have occurred this year. But it’s of such building blocks that a new, egalitarian edifice will be built. It’s a project we will all need to work on, together.
Openings and Closings: September 9 to September 15
See what’s going on online this week at museums in the US and abroad!
Art in Bloom: Garden Openings at Museums and Historic Houses
While many American cultural institutions are attempting limited re-openings with fingers crossed and bated breath, for the utltracautious aesthete, museum gardens and sculpture parks offer and alternative way to enjoy art, beauty, and a little serenity
The Gentleman from Georgia: William N. Banks Jr., remembered
His real interest was in social history. It was the architecture first, then the people and their stories. I don’t remember anyone ever telling Bill what to write about. He chose his topics, and they were consequently connected to his heart and mind.
Openings and Closings: September 2 to September 8
See what musuems have shared their collections with the Google Arts and Culture page!
Empire Refracted
A forthcoming exhibition and its catalogue examine the social
significance of glass in eighteenth-century Britain.
End notes: New Light on the Lives of Charleston’s enslaved
It’s usually not good to discover rats’ nests in your walls, but a serendipitous turn of events in Charleston has revealed what a treasure they can hold