Objects and Order

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Posting about exhibitions, museums, and objects Posts by: Christa and @jsntlr.com We create software for museums, collectors, and artists objectsandorder.com EXH.CAT is our exhibitions database

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View of an object page in a digital exhibition. The image, at left, is of a color lithograph of a large brown tabby cat reclining on a salmon-colored pillow. On the right is object information and placeholder label text: 

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (French, born Switzerland, 1859-1923)
1909
Lithograph in 6 colors (red, ochre, yellow, black, gray-brown, brown) from two stones, with scraping on stone The Art Institute of Chicago, The Charles Deering Collection

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Sometimes it's hard to *see* the exhibition while you're *seeing* the exhibition. A digital version lets you explore it again from anywhere. Take your time. And wear your biggest hat. 👇William Heath ("Paul Pry"), We Have the Exhibition to Examine, 1827–29. The Met (full caption in alt text)

Hand-colored satirical print depicting a comically crowded exhibition gallery filled with elaborately dressed visitors. Women wear enormous, plumed hats and voluminous colorful gowns. Visitors press closely together trying to view paintings hung salon-style.

Open Access image: William Heath ("Paul Pry"), We Have the Exhibition to Examine, 1827–29, hand-colored etching. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Harry G. Friedman Bequest, 1967

In Los Angeles for the AAM Annual Meeting? #aam2025 Check out the special SoCal exhibition search on EXH.CAT! See what’s currently on view in: Los Angeles Culver City Lawndale Long Beach Pasadena San Marino Monterey Park Claremont Riverside Palm Springs Costa Mesa Laguna Beach San Diego

We made a tiny plastic reproduction of Albrecht Dürer’s Rhinoceros 🦏 Here’s what we used: • Shrinkable plastic sheets • Printed image • Pen • Roll of artist tape Open Access image from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Albrecht Dürer, The Rhinoceros, 1515, woodcut. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

We love exhibitions. We love them so much that we built a database to help people find exhibitions at their favorite museums in the US. It’s called EXH.CAT. Search and discover current, upcoming, and past exhibitions in over 250 cities. We're at 11,500+ exhibitions and adding more every week!

Five sample search results for a search for "Your Favorite Museum" in the EXH.CAT exhibitions database. Results include a future exhibition, a current exhibition, an exhibition that's about to close, a digital exhibition, and a past exhibition.

Do you know about Open Access and Open Content programs? Several major museums make selections of images available for download and use. We're using an OA image to illustrate our post! 🖼️: John Kay, The Favourite Cat and De La-Tour Painter (detail), 1813, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The French artist Maurice Quentin De La Tour points at a portrait of his glasses-wearing cat on an easel.