Institution-Building in the Global South: Sharmini Pereira of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka
MMCA's chief curator discusses location, language, learning on the job, and creating a museum from scratch.
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Institution-Building in the Global South: Ibrahim Mahama of Ghana’s Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art
The artist and director discusses the importance of experimentation and failure in creative placemaking.
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Product Spotlight: Takashi Murakami Pixel Flower Pancake Pan
One luxury in the kitchen, to my mind, is owning hyper-specific cookware and tools—a tamagoyaki pan, say, or a cast-iron fish pan, or a humble but elegant mushroom brush. For the flapjack…
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How I Made This: Windy Chien’s Knotted Art
Humans have documented almost 4,000 different knots, many of them invented by sailors. In 2016, Windy Chien set out to learn a fraction of them. That year, the San Francisco–based artist—an…
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Making It: Get Started Dyeing
Practitioners say that dyeing is a highly rewarding art form and, with relatively low barriers to entry, is ideal for those keen to experiment.
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Making It: Let It Show with Visible Mending
Today, those interested in visible mending have a vast sea of resources to explore.
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How Two Artists’ Transformation of a Portland Museum May Provide a Blueprint for Larger Institutions
The Five Oaks Museum, on unceded Kalapuyan land in Portland, reimagines how museums can approach issues regarding diversity, access, and inclusion.
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MCA Chicago Makes Round of Layoffs, Intensifying Divisions Between Staff and Leadership
Around 10 percent of full-time employees and around half of the museum's part-time employees were cut.
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MCA Chicago Staff and Administration Eye Each Other Warily in Response to Job Restructurings
The new structure comes amid an open letter from staff and a sit-in protest.
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Crisis and Community: How Chicago’s Rebuild Foundation Is Closing the Gap Between Art Spaces and the People They Serve
"We didn't want to contribute noise," Rebuild's director of public programming said.
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