Thomas Cole’s sublime “The Course of Empire” headlines an exhibition of 45 landscapes that opened at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on December 7.
The freelance museum educators working in New York City are a particular breed of professional: highly trained (often with specialized skills for teaching populations with cognitive issues or physical disabilities), mostly possessing advanced degrees, frequently in love with their jobs. For museums, having these vitally committed, knowledgeable personnel to provide a human face for the institution is essential to one of their main objectives: helping the children and adults they teach to develop a long-lasting relationship with the museum. These freelancers are also mostly women who have backgrounds in art history, education, writing, or commercial art trading, or are themselves practicing artists.
The Precarious Lives of Freelance Museum Educators
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Francesco Clemente opens his latest at Boone this month, and trough February 2, 2015, his work can also be seen in “Inspired by India,” at New York’s Rubin Museum of Art.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/nbKd-9RysUM?feature=oembed
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