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At War In Cincinnati? No Wonder Aaron Betsky Is Up For Another Job: He's At Odds With Some Donors, Employees, Ex-Trustees......
I Have A Little List The Times Of London Names The Fifty Best Art Museums In The World: Who's On, Who's Off? Do You Agree?...
Thomas Messer, 93, Guggenheim's Rock-Solid Director Simple rectitude for simpler times. Astute, generously shared insights on museum-management issues. Our late encounter on the Wright ramps....
Special Events: Why I've Stopped Writing (for now) Wanna know why I've not been blogging or tweeting lately? Sometimes life intervenes (in a good way)....
Getting Younger Audiences Donor To SFMoMA Prompts Comparison Shopping Among Museums; Are Varying Fees The Answer?...
Back To The Future Will The Tate Lead The Way? New Reinstallation Shuns Themes In Favor Of. Yes, Chronology...
An Absurd Debate About the Last Word Following up on the previous blogpost, here's a superimposition of several lines on Beckett's short dramatic monologue "Not I."...
Getting More Ambitious Collections Tend To Expand. And So, Two Dallas Couples Have Joined In A New Private Exhibition Space...
Peer Review Suspense Curators' Association Chooses The Best Exhibition, Catalogues And Articles From Last Year...
Expansion Derailed: Peabody Essex Terminates Relationship with the Late Rick Mather's Firm In wake of recent death of chosen architect, the Salem, MA, museum will announce new choice "in the coming weeks."...
Benny Andrews Rediscovered: Holland Cotter (and my) Appreciation of Michael Rosenfeld's Retrospective "World-weariness, resistance and resilience, starkly composed with Hopper-esque economy and simplicity." That's me, not Cotter. Museum show next?...
Back On The Acquisition Trail A Return To The Old Days: The Getty Museum Lands Two Big Ones, Including A Rembrandt Self-Portrait...
Musings On Museums The Good, The Bad And The Ugly At The Cincinnati Art Museum: What I Learned At A Panel Yesterday...
Diller Scofidio + Renfro May Keep Folk Art Building in Designing MoMA's New Galleries Will DS+R broker ceasefire between MoMA's Glenn Lowry and critics of American Folk Art Museum building's demolition? My compromise suggestion....
Auctioneer Andreas Rumbler Gets Deserved Applause at Christie's Bumpy Impressionist/Modern Sale He energizes the sale, despite so-so results. Derain flops. Disclosed, prearranged Soutine bid sets ceiling as well as floor....
Campbell/Cambodia: Metropolitan Museum's Principled Repatriation of Looted Khmer Statues Setting gold standard for proactive, voluntary returns. But more transparency needed about what informed this decision. Should India be next?...
Big Job Opening In Cincinnati? Does The Art Museum Need A New Director? Aaron Betsky May Be Headed Out The Door...
Sotheby's Slog: Lackluster Impressionist/Modern Sale UPDATED It's not that the auction didn't do reasonably well. It's just that the works were largely humdrum, the pace slow....
Whither the Impressionist/Modern Art Market? Auction House PR Machines in Overdrive (with video) We'll soon see if market has peaked or remains solid. New buyers at highest level. Soutine record assured. Auctioneers' hype....
To Boston, With Love, From Tom In Wake Of Boston Bombings, Met Director Lends Three Paintings To the MFA In Solidarity - And For Solace...
Debunking "Punk": Metropolitan Museum's Exhibition from (Richard) Hell Recreating CBGB's bathroom? Wadsworth Atheneum's already done that. The shock is gone. "Punk's" a clunker. Theatrics without substance....
Update From China Beijing's Galleries, Including Foreign Ones, Are Losing Money -- A Lot Of It. How Long Will They Stay?...
A Foreign Gala I Can Live With Raising Money In New York This Week, Tate Americas Sets A Course That Benefits Artists Here...
Menu-Size Art: Quicker Than You Can Say Fast Food Cold Turkey Press has put together a beautiful portfolio of collages by Norman O. Mustill titled 'Cuisine Rapide.'...
