Museum coverage across collections, temporary surveys, conservation work, curatorial appointments and deaccession controversies. Practical detail is included: admission, timed entry, free hours and how long a floor genuinely takes. For visitors planning a day and for readers following how institutions manage what they hold.
Since 2017 the Met has published images of public-domain works under CC0, and the Smithsonian released millions of objects in 2020. What open access changes for artists, scholars and the public image economy.
Selling from the collection is the art world’s third rail. The AAMD and AAM rules, the Berkshire Museum fiasco, the Baltimore Museum’s experiment — and why proceeds can only ever buy more art.
Most of what hangs in American museums arrived as a gift, not a purchase. Inside the acquisitions pipeline — curatorial proposals, committee votes, AAMD rules and the money that makes it move.