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Another Eclectic Reinstallation Even The National Gallery Of Art Is Using Themes, Not Art History, In Its New 19th C French Hang...
The Return of CultureGrrl: Resuming (occasional) Posting Many e-mails (one in particular) convince me to reboot. My new Finnish television gig. Should I move to Helsinki?...
Archive This Pacific Standard Time's Performance Art Festival Swaggers Onto YouTube. Wish You Were There?...
Ooops: Artist And Date Misattributed What To Do? Minneapolis Institute of Arts Creates An Exhibition, And Everyone Wins...
Van Gogh, Not Up Close Enough An NYT Reader Notes, Where's The Philadelphia Museum's App? Another Says Museums Are In Dark Ages...
New King Of The Art World Cezanne Crowned: Royal Family Of Qatar Pays Highest Ever (Known) Price For A Painting...
My Huffington Post Piece on Renzo Piano's Gardner Museum Expansion I've been critical of four Piano museum expansions. This one worked (except for too-narrow passageway). Tapestry Tostmann talks....
Forbidden Territory The British Museum, With Help From Saudi Arabia, The Khalili Family Trust And Others, Takes Visitors On A Hajj...
Just Announced Museum Of Fine Arts In Houston Selects Its Architect, And It's A Good Choice, If Past Is Prologue...
An unusual marriage of acoustics and art A photographer joins forces with an audio technology firm to change the way space sounds...
At Last Sixty-Two Years After His Death, Max Beckmann Gets A Room Of His Own....St. Louis Art Museum Reinstalls...
Why is Philippe de Montebello Promoting Century 21 Stores? Case of inadvertent (and unfortunate) product placement. More unfortunate: the placement of the Met's bronze bust of its former director....
Get The Knives Out Does The Contemporary Art World Need More Hatchet Jobs From Critics? An Argument For......
The Eames films (III) Charles and Ray Eames' "Toccata for Toy Trains," filmed in 1958....
New Fisk Appeal Request: Tennessee AG Again Defends Georgia O'Keeffe's "Explicit Instructions" Court should avoid "the chilling effect on future donor gifts" that would occur if "donor's express intent" were ignored. Amen....
Where's CultureGrrl? Have you already forgotten me, art-lings? A bit on what I've been doing, and how you can follow me....
The Eames films (II) Today's video: Charles and Ray Eames' "Tops," filmed in 1969: http://tinyurl.com/6ugotkf...
What's Up At SF's Asian Art Museum? Five Questions For Its Director Jay Xu, A Year After Its Brush With Financial Ruin...
Money Flows From India How The Art Institute of Chicago Captured The First Indian Government Grant To An Art Museum...
The Money Is Flowing In Boston Two New Endowed Directorships, Plus One Chief Curator, Should Help Keep Up City's Momentum...
A Mini-Review Documentary -- Out Of The Shadows -- Reveals What Cutting-Edge Science Can Do For Paintings...
It Doesn't Happen Very Often Museum's Director Of Education Departs For Another Post -- As Director -- And Makes News...
Hirst Hits the Spot The spot paintings go global -- 11 galleries world-wide. Are we being taken for a ride?...
Good News From Detroit A Potent Combination: Rembrandt And Jesus Exhibition, So Attractive That DIA Adds Hours...
What's In A Name? In Two Years, Ivory Old Master Sculpture Gains About $3.68 Million In Value. The Power Of Attribution...
