Inside Salvador Dalí’s Overnight Exhumation
According to the Dalí Foundation, the artist’s iconic mustache is still in its “classic ten past ten position.”
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Museums
The Knox-Albright Museum’s Anti-Historical Expansion Plan
In this case, the Albright-Knox seems to be trying to rewrite history, repeating the canard that Bunshaft’s building was built as an auditorium, not galleries, so that’s the only part worth saving. According to the history books, this is simply not true.”
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$25 Admission To A Museum Special Exhibition? How Much Is Too Much?
That’s what LA’s Broad Museum will charge. “One has to note that these are the same museums that regularly raise outside sums of money to pay for big building projects, even as they make no real effort to address ticket prices. While commending the Broads for displaying their collection for free (setting aside that it is largely blue chip and […]
How To Fix The Met Museum? Millepied, Muhly, And Cheech Marin (Among Others) Weigh In
A range of Met-ophiles – artists and archaeologists, chefs and curators, designers and D.J.s, playwrights and performers – offer their own ideas and expectations for how a new director can rethink the world’s greatest museum for a new century. Some of these suggestions are bold, others more whimsical, but all of them come from people […]
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After Controversial Reforms, Attendance At Italy’s Museums Is Up
“Italy’s Culture Ministry says the number of visitors to Italian museums continues to rise two years after reforms that included opening top museum positions to foreigners for the first time.”
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When Selfies Go Way Wrong, Like 200,000 Dollars Worth Of (Ruined) Art Wrong
Whoops. Very, very much whoops, at a gallery in Los Angeles.
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Taking Papyrus Off The Faces Of Mummies: More Concerns About The Hobby Lobby/Museum Of The Bible’s Purchase Of Antiquities
Last week the company was fined $3 million for having purchased cuneiform tablets and other ancient items (which will be returned) apparently looted from Iraq for the museum’s collection. Here, Noah Charney writes about different allegations: that the Green family (Hobby Lobby’s owners) acquired papyrus fragments used to bind Egyptian mummies that had been removed […]
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Expansion Plans For Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Museum Draws Ire Of Preservationists
Particularly after a statement by the museum’s director Janne Sirén: “We are also not in the business of collecting buildings. We are an art museum and our service is to our public and to the artworks in our custody. The buildings are here to serve us, and not us as the staff, but the public […]
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Met Puts Off Building New Wing For Lauder’s Cubism Collection – Will He Still Donate The Paintings?
Hanging over the Met’s decision this year to postpone its new $600 million wing for Modern and contemporary art – as well as the museum’s recent management turmoil – have been nagging questions: Is Mr. Lauder’s gift, valued at more than $1 billion four years ago, now at risk? If the Met takes too long […]
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How Much Money Do Museum Workers Really Make?
The data is public for the first time, and not surprisingly, directors and COOs make a lot, while security guards and entry-level curators make barely enough to live on, much less pay off student loans.
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