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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most people have probably seen a museum label or two in their time--usually a small explainer of the object: title, date created, artist or origin. That can do the trick for those looking for ...

(JTA) — The first time an account sharing items held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art tweeted a picture that appeared unmistakably to Jewish followers to be a ritual object used in Jewish prayer with ...

The Smithsonian has changed or eliminated some interpretive language that typically accompanies exhibited artworks. Critics ...

JUNEAU — I fell in love with the Alaska State Museum as an 8-year-old in 1971, when my family lived in Juneau. I can still remember my imagination tingling as I walked up the spiral ramp around a life ...