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Category: Museums

  • Dahesh Museum of Art

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    One of the problems confronting small museums, that are most often originally based on the art collection of an individual at their inception, is the question acquiring and maintaining a physical space in which to display the works. Maintaining a physical space is often more difficult for small museums than large ones. Even though large…

  • Art Babble

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    Art Babble is a terrific site that promises to get even better, and probably rapidly. Art Babble, the tagline for which is “Play Art Loud”, aggregates art related videos from a variety of sources, most notably museums like the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Arts & Design, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Norman…

  • Wikipedia Loves Art

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    Wikipedia Loves Art is a combination photography contest and scavenger hunt with the intention of illustrating articles on the free encyclopedia with photographs of specific art objects from participating museums, taken by the contestants and released under a Creative Commons License. There are participating museums in 5 states in the Northeastern US, as well as…

  • North American Reciprocal Museum Program (NARM)

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    Buried somewhere in the membership pages on the web sites of many small art museums and cultural centers in the U.S. and Canada, usually somewhere halfway down the page of museum membership levels, is a little perk that can sometimes make a higher level museum membership into a great deal. Over 300 smaller, “regional” museums,…

  • American Impressionism from the Phillips Collection

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    Those who have been reading Lines and Colors for a while will know that I have a particular fondness for many of the late 19th, early 20th Century painters referred to as “American Impressionists”. (I put the phrase in quotes because I doubt the painters ever referred to themselves in those terms.) The Phillips Collection…

  • Scenes of the Season at Brandywine River Museum

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    There’s a tendency to think of landscape painting as primarily a summer activity, or at least one of diminished interest in the Winter, both because of the inconvenience of painting in the cold, and the expectation of less color in the winter landscape. Quite to the contrary, many painters and illustrators found great subjects in…