An empty pedestal of a seized looted artifact at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City (photo Erin L. Thompson/Hyperallergic) I’ve been thinking about absence since last spring, when I visited a ...

In Toronto, museum-quality wall labels now accompany a broken water fountain, a chopped-off tree, and a sign announcing the abrupt end of a bike lane. In a project they call AusterityTO, James McLeod ...

Director of the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum and former Labour MP Tristram Hunt talks to Tali Fraser about rewriting gallery labels, turning off Netflix and the lack of tech billionaire donors.

A competition for the best museum-label writing? Who knew? Obviously, museum professionals know about it. Each year since 2009, the American Alliance of Museums has sponsored an Excellence in ...

Last month, a local TikToker posted a photo of a Denver Art Museum label, with this text: “Saw my first AI-generated museum label at the Denver Art Museum” accompanied by screaming audio. The label, ...