At this pivotal moment in history, the art world has a choice. Climate science paints a nightmarish future, and to have a chance of avoiding it, the 2020s need to be the decade of climate action. Governments are failing to act with the urgency or ambition required, so it’s up […]

“We want to be able to capture the legacy of the pandemic, not just the immediacy of it. ”Someday, someday, this pandemic will be part of our collective past, the stuff of a museum exhibit, and, when that day arrives, curators will want to thank Emily Gann. “We have to […]

I’d hoped to be forecasting the post-COVID future by this point, but that apparently wasn’t in the cards. (Forgive me a little futurist Tarot humor.) Instead, it’s entirely possible that 2022 will become Year Three of the COVID-19 pandemic. That being so, your foresight, and mine, needs to remain firmly […]

“People really don’t want to be directors right now.” There are a near-record 10.5 million job vacancies in the United States, according to the latest figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The hiring crunch has left the upper echelons of the art world empty, with almost two dozen openings […]

Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA Denver) will celebrate its silver anniversary in 2022. The museum’s lively response to the devastating COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 and 2021 demonstrates the saving grace of creativity in a crisis. “We did more than pivot. We pirouetted many, many, many times,” says MCA Denver’s Mark G. […]

The restart of travel following the Covid-19 pandemic is a chance to reset tourism over the next several years. Athens is embracing the opportunity to become a more sustainable destination by rethinking the traditional divide between visitors and locals. Today it’s clear that tourism cannot become sustainable without a sustainable […]

While its institutions and employees have hardly been alone in suffering from the impact of COVID-19, the international museum sector has had a hard time of it over the last two years, with almost all the world’s major museums shut down during lengthy lockdowns. Surveying the damage, The Art Newspaper […]

Rachel Mackay explores how design choices in object display and exhibition design can create emotional impact and even change attitudes Emotion has not always enjoyed a positive reputation within the museum and heritage world. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, emotion and heritage were considered unnatural bedfellows. Emotion in the heritage world was seen as mere nostalgia; an unhelpful […]

Following a year of pandemic-accelerated innovation, 2021 saw the arts and culture sectors reorient themselves around the digital sphere. The need to continually engage their newfound audiences has compelled institutions to boost their virtual offerings, consider new mediums such as NFTs, and retool their approaches to inclusivity and accessibility.

Art leaders across the country and the world wrestled with the same question. Pandemic closures stretched on for weeks and months, shuttering exhibitions and bringing ticket sales to a standstill. The upshot? Art institutions shifted their creativity into high gear, finding new and innovative ways to engage with the public. […]