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Lee Liles’ Horseshoeing Museum Is Moving To Oklahoma City
The late Lee Liles dedicated his life to preserving the heritage of farriery with the creation of the National Museum of Horse Shoeing Tools and Hall Of Honor. Nine months after his passing, Liles’ family delivered a valentine to their patriarch and the farrier industry by announcing the collection will have a permanent home in Oklahoma City, Okla.
What Medical Students Can Learn From Art Museums
There's more to being a doctor than diagnosing symptoms. And that's where art comes in.
How The Arts = Happiness
Step inside any art museum, say MoMA or the Wadsworth, and the regions of your brain associated with pleasure, memory, emotion, and vision immediately light up upon viewing a painting, according to…
What Is Graphic Design’s Place in an Art Museum?
We don’t always realize it, but graphic design saturates every part of our lives. It informs the decisions we make as consumers and serves as a structure for how we understand and engage with our environment—whether through navigating the labyrinth of subway lines via color-coded route maps or learn
Why All Major Museums Should Be Free
Art shouldn't only be for those who can afford to see it.
A Practical Guide to the New, Improved Museum of Modern Art
47,000 additional square-feet ... and no room to move
Hiring Tips to Create Value and Inclusion for all Disciplines in Museums
There are qualified and diverse candidates out there who may not be aware that museums are a sustainable career option for them—it’s our job as a field to recruit and retain this virtually untapped…
How do art museums decide what great works should be fridge magnets?
The complicated relationship between art and commerce has a home in the museum gift shop.
Why Interior Designers Need Art Museums
Museum exhibits feed our imagination, create connections to our client projects and 'connect the dots' to so many aspects of our daily work.
How a Trip to the Art Museum Became a Vision for Fresh Expressions
I have two teenage daughters. One loves art museums. She is an artist herself, and loves the experience of peering into paintings and sculptures on display. She feels things the artist is hoping she would feel, she sees details that the artist has painstakingly worked to reveal, she loses herself in pieces that take her …
Art museums find going free comes with a cost
Museums find they're scrambling to adapt their business models -- with mixed results.
8 Signs Someone Is Truly Involved in Your Church
Moving new people toward "assimilation": a scorecard for your church.
Millennials and cohabitation: Understanding motivations and ministering well
Recently, I sat in my office with a young man considering moving in with his girlfriend. I’...
Why Some Artists Turn Away Would-Be Buyers
Whether to maximize museum acquisitions, because of a particular moral stance, or to enable more diverse collecting, some artists are very involved in their sales.
How Do Arts Organizations Use the Internet?
Museums sometimes seem to have a split identity — some institutions are on the bleeding edge of innovation, taking full advantage of the internet and technology in spreading access to their collections and programming. Others are stuck in the past, operating just how they might have decades ago with administrations unwilling to push technological initiatives. A report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project on…
Why a Makerspace Popped Up In a Museum
“If we can inspire [teens] to follow this as a potential career path, or if we can inspire them to try to solve a problem in their neighborhood, that’s what we’re after.”
When Priceless Works of Art Show Up in Unexpected Places
Museum-quality pieces have been found everywhere from thrift shops to attic corners
How artists capture environments
Art may be found in museums, but it almost never begins there. Discover some of the different ways that artists represent place and use materials from their ...
Multisite: Moving to "What Could Be"
Every multisite church has dreamed about a new reality. Let’s face it – the culture is changing so rapidly that our strategies need adjustment sooner. Recently, I was listening to...
What We Miss Without Museums
Museums know the desires of our hands. The special presence of paintings comes from their being at once untouchable and viscerally evocative of touch.
