The beginnings of the art collection

The Oceanic Collection at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science is one of the smallest collections contained within the museum’s World Ethnology Collection, yet it is perhaps o...

A readable guide to the art of looking at art. There’s an art to viewing art. A sizable portion of the population regards art with varying degrees of reverence, bewilderm...

The Francis and Mary Crane Collection of Native American material culture at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science contains nearly 200 medals that they described as “relating t...

This book presents the first detailed study of the place of contemporary art galleries and gallerists, especially within the art markets of Europe and the United States.Based on th...

In his debut collection, Some Trees (1956), John Ashbery poses a question that resonates across his oeuvre and much modern art: “How could he explain to them his prayer / that natu...

Fluxus was a pivotal movement in redefining art’s role and the artist’s identity in the contemporary world, so that its aesthetics – as well as many of its gimmicks – have become s...

The New Art Museum Libraryaddresses the issues facing today's art museum libraries through a series of scholarly essays written by top librarians in the field. In 2007, the publica...

Abstract The Victorian period was distinguished by several historical developments that revolutionized art instruction. A growing investment in standardized educatio...