#artmuseums

2025-11-21

The Spot 518: Hudson River School: Albany Institute launches new in-person, online museum guide. “The Albany Institute of History & Art is introducing new ways for visitors to engage with its collection. Founded in 1791, the museum features more than 25,000 objects and more than 1 million documents, and holds one of the largest collections of Hudson River paintings. A free printed guide is now […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/21/hudson-river-school-albany-institute-launches-new-in-person-online-museum-guide-the-spot-518/

2025-11-18

NPR: Harlem’s Studio Museum, an important home for Black art, finds a permanent location. “Back in 1968, a group of artists and activists rented a loft above an uptown Manhattan liquor store, determined to turn it into a nexus for Black culture. They called it the Studio Museum in Harlem. In the 57 years since, the Studio Museum has become an internationally acclaimed hub for artists of African […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/18/npr-harlems-studio-museum-an-important-home-for-black-art-finds-a-permanent-location/

2025-11-14

Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art: Digital Permanent Collection Catalog and other resources. “Our wonderful Registration team has launched the first iteration of our Digital Permanent Collection Catalog – a searchable resource that contains the full listing of all works in our collection, including information on what’s on view across campus.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/14/nerman-museum-of-contemporary-art-digital-permanent-collection-catalog-and-other-resources/

Free Spirit MegFreeSpiritMeg
2025-11-10

"Go to an Art Museum Day" is the perfect reminder to pause, wander, and let creativity refill your cup 🎨🖼️ Whether you go for inspiration, peace, or just a nice walk, art has a way of meeting you where you are.

✨ Take a day, explore a local museum, and tag who you’d love to go with!

2025-11-07

NBC News: Teen tourist allegedly vandalized art and tore tapestries at The Met Museum. “In a bizarre incident at one of New York City’s most famous cultural institutions, a teenager is facing charges for allegedly vandalizing centuries-old works of art and tearing tapestries while being arrested.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/07/nbc-news-teen-tourist-allegedly-vandalized-art-and-tore-tapestries-at-the-met-museum/

Ben HigbieBenHigbie
2025-10-28
a painting, it is several figures in a shadowy interior, one hunched over with tools on the floor, they are getting ingredients ready for potions, a woman in 18th century dress looking surprised, a baby climbing on the witch, a serpent-like shape growing from her back, some kind of shadowy demon in the background
Ben HigbieBenHigbie
2025-10-23

vessel in the image of the rain deity Tlaloc, Aztec, found in Templo Mayor, Tenochtitlan, 1440-1470 AD

a turquoise blue pottery sculpture, the top a wide column angled outwards like a vase, the face is a fearsome one with large red fangs, large circular black eyes, it has a gold crown on, it is looking directly at the viewer the sculpture seen from the side, the face is vampiric, it has big earrings hanging from its large earlobes, the ears pointed, the face looking right the vase seen from the other side, the face looking left the vessel seen from the front in a three quarter view

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