A competition for the best museum-label writing? Who knew? Obviously, museum professionals know about it. Each year since 2009, the American Alliance of Museums has sponsored an Excellence in ...
One man’s butt imprint on a subway seat is another man’s… art? A mysterious art duo is placing exhibition labels on ordinary and downright dreary scenes in subway stations in an attempt to get people ...
In Toronto, museum-quality wall labels now accompany a broken water fountain, a chopped-off tree, and a sign announcing the abrupt end of a bike lane. In a project they call AusterityTO, James McLeod ...
The brightly colored labels on apple boxes were strictly utilitarian. For more than a half-century, labels depicting bucolic vistas of Northwest orchards, children with cherubic faces, attractive ...
The earliest written explanations of exhibits on display in a museum date back as far as 530 BCE, when clay cylinders in different languages were used to accompany the artifacts in the Ennigaldi-Nanna ...
The British Museum has been forced to apologise after being branded 'racist' and 'imperialist' because a curator said the use of Asian names on exhibition labels could be confusing. During a live ...
Strolling down the Safeway wine aisle is a lot like touring an art gallery -- there are bold abstracts, classic still lifes, pastoral landscapes. Some wine labels are more than packaging -- they're ...
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