The Art of Slowing Down in a Museum
Ah, the Louvre. It’s sublime, it’s historic, it’s … overwhelming. Upon entering any vast art museum — the Hermitage, the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art — the typical traveler grabs a...
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We Cannot Take Pictures in Art Museums
It’s a scene that plays itself out hundreds of times a day in American museums: a mother and her fidgety teenage daughter stand before a famous painting—in this case, Caravaggio’s The Toothpuller, from...
View ArticleTemples of delight
MUSEUMS USED TO stand for something old, dusty, boring and barely relevant to real life. Those kinds of places still exist, but there are far fewer of them, and the more successful ones have changed...
View ArticleFor Norwegian Museum a Loss Produces a Gain
OSLO — When the Henie Onstad art museum near here received an unexpected call in June 2012 on behalf of the heirs of a French art dealer, the director, Tone Hansen, had no idea that it was the...
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