The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland will offer free admission to all starting next week as part of an initiative to broaden their traditional visitor pool and reduce barriers to engagement.
FROM THE ARCHIVE: A negative culture almost always organizes itself around secrets that must not be revealed. When that culture is deeply entrenched, trying to reveal what’s hidden can be like taking your life in your hands. The shocking demise of New York’s Healing Arts Initiative emphasizes the need for nonprofit boards and executives to reinforce the inherent cultures of their organizations and consciously build habits of integrity and vigilance that become part of that culture.
The Met’s recent increase in admission fee doesn’t appear to be hurting its visitor numbers…yet.
Roy Lichtenstein Foundation leaders are making a bold statement by donating hundreds of the Pop artist’s works and hundreds of thousands of archival documents, staying true to their mission even as they begin to talk about an eventual sunset.
It is to be expected that in a time of radical change in an institution, some disagreements would exist on the board even to the point of sparking resignations. A closer peek at what the process felt like at the Berkshire Museum may help us all think about how to approach the big questions in front of our own boards.
New York’s art auction scene congratulates itself on having sold more work by Black artists, but inclusion means much more.
Can artists rebrand the troubled European Union?
Seattle recently became one of two US cities designated by the UN as a “City of Literature.” But the story of how it got there makes a fine drama itself.
The pernicious effects of the nation’s growing inequality undermine democratic practices not only in government, but within the nonprofit sector, such as among museums.
In Worcester, Massachusetts, a vacant building is being reimagined as an arts center with the potential to drive economic development and become largely self-sustaining.
