Inspired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's iconic museum admission button -- and its retirement from service last week -- we're celebrating the creativity of admission tags, stickers, and tickets at other museums around the world. Did we miss your favorite?
These museum advertisements from across the world are a lesson in how communication can be engaging, powerful and can draw visitors like never before!
Robert Rauschenberg’s art has always been one of thoughtful inclusion. Working in a wide range of subjects, styles, materials, and techniques, Rauschenberg has been called a forerunner of essentially every postwar movement since Abstract Expressionism. He remained, however, independent of any particular affiliation. At the time that he began making art in the late 1940s and early 1950s, his belief that “painting relates to both art and life” presented a direct challenge to the prevalent modernist aesthetic. The celebrated Combines, begun in the mid-1950s, brought real-world images and objects into the realm of abstract painting and countered sanctioned divisions between painting and sculpture. These works established the artist’s ongoing dialogue between mediums, between the handmade and the readymade, and between the gestural brushstroke and the mechanically reproduced image. Rauschenberg’s lifelong commitment to collaboration — with performers, printmakers, engineers, writers, artists, and artisans from around the world — is a further manifestation of his expansive artistic philosophy. [Julia Blaut, Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective / Guggenheim]
The postulation of the unity between art and life, as called for by Fluxus, surely is an extreme example of transgression. 50 years on from the birth of “intermedia” as an art term, which like a vi…
Part ticket, part souvenir, the admission button has become a design object and a de rigueur part of the museum experience.
Image 8 of 17 from gallery of Museum of Moving Image Wins 2013 Red Dot Design Award. Photograph by LEESER Architecture
The new identity for this iconic cultural landmark uses its circular shape to celebrate Shakespeare’s impact on the world.
Find out the stories behind admission buttons from New York museums like the Met and the Brooklyn Museum.
Take a gander at the new ads from New York's Cooper Hewitt design museum, which play up resentment against modern and contemporary art.
The Whitney Museum of American Art has never done much branding, allowing its longtime Marcel Breuer-designed home—a Modernist hulk at architectural odds with its posh Upper East Side surroundings—to explain its attitude about the art inside.
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