• MENU
logo logo white logo sticky

Burlington Contemporary is the Burlington Magazine’s free online platform for reviews and research on international contemporary art.

Want to continue reading? Get 1 month digital access for only .

Subscribe now
By using this website you agree to our Cookie policy
  • MENU
logo logo white logo sticky

Search

content
A TO Z
clear all
77 articles
Editorial
Essential arts
07/2024 | 1456 | 166
Pages: 667
Read now
Subjects
museums and institutions:
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Great Britain
subjects:
Arts funding / Museums
Editorial
Purchasing power
04/2024 | 1453 | 166
Pages: 339
Read now
Subjects
museums and institutions:
National Heritage Memorial Fund / Art Fund
subjects:
Acquisitions / Art museums / Arts funding
subjects:
Acceptance-in-Lieu (AIL) / Bequests / Gifts
Article
Behind the scenes at the modern art museum
08/2023 | 1445 | 165
Pages: 882–889
Buy / subscribe
related names
Author:
Pergam, Elizabeth (Pergam, Elizabeth)
Subjects
subjects:
Museology / Art museums / Architecture / Art education / Arts funding / Museum extensions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Closed on Mondays: Behind the Scenes at the Museum. By Dinah Casson. 208 pp. incl. 149 col. ills. (Lund Humphries, London, 2020), £35. ISBN 978–1–84822–434–6. | :
subjects:
The Art Museum in Modern Times. By Charles Saumarez Smith. 272 pp., incl. 122 col. + b. & w. ills. (Thames & Hudson, London and New York, 2021), £30. ISBN 978–05– 0002243–6 | :
subjects:
The Avant-Garde Museum. Edited by Agnieszka Pindera and Jarosław Suchan. 624 pp. incl. 252 col. + 57 b. & w. ills. (Museum Sztuki, Łódź, 2020) £40. ISBN 978–3–96098–947–9. | :
subjects:
Under Discussion: The Encyclopedic Museum. Edited by Donatien Grau. 256 pp. (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2021), $35. ISBN 978–1–60606–719–2. | :
subjects:
Why the Museum Matters, by Daniel H. Weiss. 224 pp. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2022), $26. ISBN 978–03–0025935–3. | :
subjects:
Worlds in a Museum: Exploring Contemporary Museology. Edited by the Louvre Abu Dhabi and École du Louvre. 272 pp. incl. 99 col. ills. (Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2021), £20. ISBN 978–9– 46166–332–0 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2015. (Photograph Ed Lederman).
Attributed works:
2. Glass corridor in the North Wing of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk. (Photograph Kim Hansen).
Attributed works:
3. Proposal for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art expansion by Peter Zumthor. 2019. (Courtesy Atelier Peter Zumthor & Partners; The Boundary)
Attributed works:
4. Seen / Unseen Known / Unknown, by Walter De Maria. 2000. (Bennesse Art Site, Naoshima).
Attributed works:
5. Permanent display of the International collection of Modern Art of the a.r. group at the J. and K. Bartoszewicz Municipal Museum of History and Art. Photograph by Włodzimierz Pfeiffer. 1931. (From J. and K. Bartoszewicz Municipal Museum of History and Art: International Collection of Modern Art / Collection Internationale d’Art Nouveau, Łódź 1932; Archive of the Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź).
Attributed works:
6. Water Court at the Pavilions, Glenstone Museum, Potomac. (Photograph Iwan Baan).
Attributed works:
7. Louvre Abu Dhabi. (Photograph by Roland Halbe).
Attributed works:
8. Daniel Weiss, former President and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2019. (Photograph Mark Abramson).
Attributed works:
9. Burrell Collection, Glasgow. 2022. (Photograph by Hufton + Crow).
Editorial
The purposes of art
06/2021 | 1419 | 163
Pages: 491
Read now
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Tate Britain, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Turner Prize / Arts funding / Art education
subjects:
Artists' collectives
Editorial
A year of gifts
12/2020 | 1413 | 162
Pages: 1032
Read now
Subjects
subjects:
Museums / Collections, Public / Acquisitions / Arts funding / Charities / Art Fund
Editorial
The National Portrait Gallery
01/2020 | 1402 | 162
Pages: 3
Read now
Subjects
artists:
Fobert, Jamie
museums and institutions:
National Portrait Gallery, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Remodelling (buildings) / Museum closures / Arts funding / Displays
Editorial
The Friends of the Bargello
06/2018 | 1383 | 160
Pages: 451
Read now
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Sculpture / Ivories
museums and institutions:
Friends of the Bargello / Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy
places:
Italy / Florence
subjects:
Collections, Public / Museums / National museums / Arts funding / Politics / Medici family
Editorial
Funding the arts in the United States
05/2017 | 1370 | 159
Pages: 359
Read now
Subjects
places:
United States
subjects:
Editorials / Arts funding
Editorial
Museums in need
08/2015 | 1349 | 157
Pages: 519-520
Read now
Subjects
subjects:
Editorials / Displays / Galleries (display spaces) / Hanging (installation technique) / Exhibitions / Museum extensions / Acquisitions / Regional Museums / Arts funding
Book Review
Men from the Ministry. How Britain Saved Its Heritage, S. Thurley
02/2014 | 1331 | 156
Pages: 117
Subscribe to read
related names
Reviewer:
Miele, Chris (Miele, Chris)
Subjects
places:
Great Britain
subjects:
English Heritage / Historic monuments / British / Cultural history / Arts funding / Conservation
next
load more