The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) has hired Eleanor Nairne as head of the museum’s Modern and contemporary art department. The new position brings together two previously independent departments.

First of all, can we stop using the word "liminal"? Bianca Bosker spent five years doing in-depth research for Get the Picture — an irreverent book about "strategic snobbery" in the art world.

In the end, our experts generated 124 descriptive terms covering content, form, and evaluations of visual art (e.g., abstract, colorful, amateur), and 69 impact terms capturing the range of ways ...