#museums

The Living Museum in Queens, New York

Tucked inside a building on the grounds of the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, the Living Museum is a collection of artists’ work that feels nothing like a conventional museum. Established in 1983, it is a working creative space where psychiatric patients can create paintings, sculptures, installations, and mixed-media works. Artwork fills walls, rooms, and exhibition spaces, while individual artists can maintain their own studios and develop work alongside one another. There is even a music studio where albums have been recorded and are available for purchase in the museum store, along with pat

Atlas Obscura · EN

A New Search Engine Lets You Explore 4 Million Works of Art & Historical Photographs from Museums and Libraries Around the World

We live in an age when you can describe practically anything you want to see in words, then see it almost immediately. Nobody will ever have laid eyes upon that particular sight before — and quite possibly, nobody ever will again. There we have both the upside and the downside of artificial intelligence-powered image generation. […]

Open Culture · EN

Constantinople to Istanbul review – you won’t want to leave this lavish celebration of double imperial splendour

V&A, London Treasures from the two world-defining cultures that somehow coexisted in one mighty city keep on dazzling in this gorgeous, unmissable show Two empires compete to bewitch you in this exhibition that offers a double bubble of beauty. It collides the Byzantine empire, whose capital Constantinople was officially inaugurated on 11 May AD330, with the Ottoman Turks who conquered this great city in 1453 and turned it into Istanbul. The combined glories of two lost worlds – the Ottoman empire was dissolved in 1922 – beget an utterly enrapturing blockbuster. I lost all track of time in thi

Guardian Culture · EN

Swarms of Butterflies Land at New York’s Natural History Museum

The cartoonist Peter Kuper has filled a corridor with drawings of monarchs, depicting the beauty of the annual mass migration to Mexican forests — as well as its perils.

NYT Science · EN