Seats Left Empty on Smithsonian Board as Strain With White House Persists

The New York Times: A month after the terms of two Smithsonian trustees ended, their replacements have yet to be named as the traditional process of filling its governing Board of Regents has slowed in the wake of President Trump’s efforts to gain control of the institution. John Fahey and the board’s chairwoman, Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey, left the 17-member panel on March 2,

Black women take center stage at Harriet Tubman museum event

AFRO American Newspapers: The Harriet Tubman Spirit Awards honored local leaders March 21 at the Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum in Annapolis during a two-part program that also featured an artist discussion on history, memory and Black women’s stories.

You Can’t Have It All: The Impossible Demands of the Modern Museum

Architect Magazine: Is a museum a place for a community to come together around art that both grounds and opens perceptions about the world around them? Is it a monument to our collective cultural achievements and aspirations? A storehouse for those treasures that amaze us?

You Can Now Explore Over 100 Objects From the Met in 3D

mymodernmet.com: As part of its Open Access initiative, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has published more than 100 high-definition 3D scans of art historical objects. These models have been carefully curated from the museum’s collection, which encompasses some 1.5 million works across media such as sculpture, painting, textiles, jewelry, calligraphy, and more.

The Museum of Broadway to Open SO IN LOVE…WITH BROADWAY Exhibition

www.broadwayworld.com: The Museum of Broadway will present a new special exhibit that will encapsulate the great love stories of Broadway through unforgettable costumes, accessories, lyrics and more.

Guardian of the Film Academy’s Treasures Talks Museum and Collection

www.hollywoodreporter.com: On Jan. 13, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that Amy Homma, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures’ director and president, will henceforth also oversee the Academy Collection, which includes some 52 million film-related items held within the Margaret Herrick Library and the Academy Film Archive, ranging from an original script of Citizen Kane to a pair of the ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz.

AI-Powered Robots in the Art World: Applications in Contemporary Art and Museums

Arts Management and Technology Lab: From algorithmic computation to human-machine collaboration, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is reshaping how society produces knowledge and imagines the future. AI-powered robots are now appearing not only in factories but also in art studios, galleries, and museums, signaling a crucial cultural shift, transforming technology from a tool of production to an active participant in artistic creation and curatorial practice.

Decoding the Visual Poetry of the Met Opera’s Beloved Chagall Murals

news.artnet.com: New York’s financially beleaguered Metropolitan Opera announced earlier this week that it may sell its two iconic, and colossal, Marc Chagall murals, which adorn the building’s Grand Tier. There’s a caveat to the proposal, however—the paintings would need to remain in place at the opera, and the owner would be recognized in a plaque. The two paintings, The Sources of Music and The Triumphs of Music, were unveiled in 1966 and have become synonymous with the venue.

All Digital Signage, Some Snark

Sixteen:NineSixteen:Nine | : The Museum of Art + Light in Manhattan, Kansas, has opened a large-scale immersive gallery that uses high-brightness laser projection to surround visitors with moving imagery across walls and floors, transforming traditional exhibition space into a fully enveloping digital environment.

Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Sets Opening for September 2026

www.hollywoodreporter.com: The new cultural institution designed to celebrate illustrated storytelling, founded by Star Wars creator George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson, will open to the public on Sept. 22, 2026. “This is a museum of the people’s art. The images are illustrations of beliefs we live with every day,” said Hobson in a statement making the date announcement. “For that reason, this art belongs to everyone.”

What is inside Andy Warhol's hundreds of time capsules?

nextpittsburgh.com: Warhol is well known as a collector, but his Time Capsule project was his most epic collecting endeavor. Over the last 13 years of his life, Warhol filled more than 600 boxes with 300,000+ objects from his everyday life: receipts, works of art, envelopes of cash, packages of cookies, Polaroids, handwritten letters, paperwork, birthday presents, etc.

Mappability, granularity and the power of bespoke

InPark Magazine: “When multiple systems become impractical to maintain, LiCA can step in as the big overseer,” said Alexander Cooper, Head of Exhibit Technology for the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Cooper led the internal team that set out to design a new, comprehensive system to unify architectural lighting control across diverse venues.

The Museum of Broadway to Launch THE ROCKETTES 100TH ANNIVERSARY: A CENTURY OF SISTERHOOD

www.broadwayworld.com: The Museum of Broadway will present a new special exhibit that will celebrate the 100th anniversary of The Rockettes. The exhibit, entitled The Rockettes 100th Anniversary: A Century of Sisterhood, will open to the public on November 13, 2025, and run through January 5, 2026, at The Museum of Broadway in NYC’s Times Square.

The Met Unveils 2026 'Costume Art' Exhibit and New Galleries in NYC: See Pictures

www.timeout.com/newyork: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute is making a bold claim with its next blockbuster exhibition: that fashion isn’t just adjacent to art history, it’s stitched straight through it.

Opening Worlds, Opening Doors: MoMI Is Redefining What a Museum Can Be

Playbill: When Executive Director Aziz Isham joined the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) in October 2023, he saw opportunity in what wasn’t happening. The museum’s ground-floor spaces and courtyard were being underutilized, and he wanted to open them up—literally—to the community.

Museum of Broadway launches nonprofit foundation

www.broadwaynews.com: The Museum of Broadway has added a philanthropic wing called the Broadway Legacy Foundation. The launch of this 501(c)(3) organization comes as the museum celebrates its third anniversary. The occasion will be marked with a Nov. 11 event at the museum dubbed the Founding Salon.

Pepperdine University Museum Director Resigns After Censorship Scandal

news.artnet.com: Andrea Gyorody, the director of the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University, has resigned after an outcry following the school’s censorship of two works in a show there. The exhibition, “Hold My Hand In Yours,” which Gyorody curated, was closed early after the university, in Malibu, California, deemed two artworks to be “political.”

The 59th Carnegie International Aims to be the Most Far-Reaching and More Collaborative Than Ever

Pittsburgh Magazine: A New York-based artist is premiering an immersive animation show at the Kamin Science Center’s Buhl Planetarium and Observatory that will take audiences on a journey that begins from the seabeds of the Caribbean.

Museum Workers Struggle With Low Pay, But Satisfaction Is Rising, Report Finds

news.artnet.com: Current and aspiring art museum workers may want to sign on with smaller institutions, according to one conclusion from a new report by Museums Moving Forward (MMF). Today, the organization releases its 2025 Report on Workplace Equity and Organizational Culture in U.S. Art Museums, a biannual, nationwide study launched in 2023.

The Battle Over Space Shuttle Discovery Keeps Getting Crazier

gizmodo.com: Texas Senators have launched an all-out crusade to break Space Shuttle Discovery into pieces and move it to their state. This iconic spacecraft has been on display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., for more than a decade, and the institution isn’t giving it up without a fight.