At the Met’s “Manet/Degas” exhibition, museum labels blend in. Photo by Liao Pan/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images “Most people visiting a museum really want to learn something, so they walk ...

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 ...

When I first attended school to learn about material culture (physical objects made or modified by humans), my professor — a fantastic combination of Elmer Fudd and Vizzini from “The Princess Bride” — ...

Thousands of African objects "given, stolen and forcefully taken" at the height of the British Empire have gone on display at ...

This guide to writing interpretive exhibit labels is updated to include new voices, current scholarship and the unique issues the museum field is grappling with in the 21st century. This edition is ...