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The Ruins, Rubble, and Architecture of War in Art
Henry Carr, “Liberation” (1944) (© IWM) (all images courtesy Imperial War Museums) The architecture of war is more accurately the ruins it leaves behind, but there are structures to this destruction....
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The Astounding Art and Artifacts Museums Didn’t Know They Had
Tlingit Helmet discovered last year in the archives of the Springfield Science Museum (courtesy Springfield Science Museum) Sometimes museums and archives don’t know the treasures they already have,...
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As a Poppy-Flooded Armistice Day Ends, a Major WWI Library May Close
View of the Imperial War Museum in London this August (photograph by George Redgrave, via Flickr) Armistice Day just passed in this year marking the centenary of the start of World War I, and now...
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Empty Vitrines at British Institutions Call for Copyright Reform
An empty display case at the National Library of Scotland (image courtesy National Library of Scotland, via Flickr) Museums and libraries in the United Kingdom are demanding copyright reform by leaving...
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For #MuseumWeek, Institutions Share Their Secrets Online
Plaster reproductions of European sculpture at the Brooklyn Museum, shown in an archive photograph shared by the museum for Museum Week’s Secrets day (via Tumblr) What are museums hiding in their pasts...
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Crimes of the Art
Michael Grab with some of his stone stacks (photo by GravityGlue/Instagram) Crimes of the Art is a weekly survey of artless criminals’ cultural misdeeds. Crimes are rated on a highly subjective scale...
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Lee Miller’s Photographs Frame the Women of World War II
Unknown photographer, “Lee Miller in steel helmet specially designed for using a camera, Normandy, France 1944” (© The Penrose Collection, England 2015) “The personality of the photographer, his...
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See the Original 1958 Sketches for the Peace Symbol
Sketch of nuclear disarmament symbol by Gerald Holtom (courtesy Commonweal Collection, University of Bradford) The peace symbol is so ubiquitous as a visual of protest and activism, including in the...
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