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About Art Museum Journal

ArtMuseumJournal.com provides knowledge about world cultures and their art through engaging and easy-to-read articles that are interdisciplinary in nature. Our talented team of well-traveled scholars and linguists possesses more than 250 combined years of teaching and curatorial experience.

Subjects covered include: recent developments in museums, art history and related subjects: staff accomplishments; permanent installations, special exhibitions, books and catalogues; archaeology; Egyptology; object conservation, restoration and repatriation; insightful descriptions of works of art; and suggestions for shopping.

The Web site is optimized for Internet Explorer. Links to our newest articles are posted daily under Headline News on the home page. All of them are filed in categories you can navigate on the left-hand side of your screen.

Students and Teachers

Visit our Academic Resources pages for information you can use in your educational pursuits.

Publisher & Editor-in-Chief

Stan Parchin is a scholar of ancient, medieval, Renaissance and Baroque art and civilization. His specialties include: Old and New Kingdom Egypt; Leonardo da Vinci; Church history; and witchcraft, heresy and social dissent.

Shawabti of Tutankhamun (detail)
Egyptian, New Kingdom (ca. 1342-1332 B.C.)
Gilded wood
H. 48.0 cm (18.9 in.)
Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Photo courtesy: Jon Bodsworth

Correspondents

Christiane Birkett is an Australian journalist and photographer whose travels have taken her to museums and cultural sites across Europe, Turkey and North Africa.

Arthur Kirmss is an artist, curator and writer whose wide-ranging areas of expertise span the Dutch Golden Age to the contemporary art scene. He's also a founding member of Courante and Dolcy Jones, two vibrant musical ensembles.

Gail S. Myhre is a writer and historian specializing in ancient Graeco-Roman culture. She also instructs and competes in Mixed Martial Arts, holding a black belt in that discipline.

Team AMJ

Photographers

Robert Alan Espino
Joseph Trombello

Consultants

Hallie Cohen
Hilda O'Connell-Harris
Matthew Jensen

Dr. Robert Marraccino

Gregory Rapisarda

Raymond J. Sweitzer, S.J.

Webdiva
Ellen Brody-Kirmss is an occasional Web site builder and exhibition consultant. After more than 20 years of corporate IT experience, she became a NYC Teaching Fellow and currently instructs students in a large Brooklyn high school.

Art Museum Journal

The latest news from museums worldwide about permanent installations, special exhibitions and art history, covering antiquity through modern times.