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CULTUREGRRL 
CultureGrrl specializes in informed commentary, cutting through the hype and tripe with good writing and good humor. Cited by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Boston Globe, this blog brings you beyond conventional coverage, inside the minds and methods of major players in museums, markets and media. COMMENTS by e-mail are welcome. If you wish them to be posted, please provide your name and who you are (especially any artworld connection).

LEE ROSENBAUM 
I'm a longtime cultural journalist. Since I always have more opinions and information than the Mainstream Media can use, I've decided to throw some of those juicy tidbits into this blog. You may have seen my many pieces on the Wall Street Journal's "Leisure & Arts" and "Taste" pages, and in the New York Times (Arts & Leisure, Real Estate, Business, Circuits and six Op-Ed pieces). I'm also contributing editor of Art in America magazine and author of The Complete Guide to Collecting Art (Knopf).

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The Complete Guide to Collecting Art (Knopf) 

IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA
Here are some highlights from my writings:

NY TIMES OP-EDS:
For Sale: Our Permanent Collection (museum deaccessions)
Fashion Victim (Chanel at the Met)
Destroying the Museum to Save It (Barnes Foundation)
Reassembling Sundered Antiquities (Parthenon marbles)

WALL STREET JOURNAL:
The Walton Effect: Art World Is Roiled by Wal-Mart Heiress

Tricks of the Auction Trade

The Seattle Art Museum: A Work in Progress

Upside Down and Backward, Yet Tame (Boston ICA)
Edith Wharton's Library Is Now an Open Book
Extreme Makeover: Smithsonian Edition (American Art and Portrait Gallery renovation)
This Museum's Expansion is Simply Effective (Minneapolis Institute)
Truth in Booty: Coming--and Staying--Clean (antiquities controversies)
A Betrayal of Trust (NY Public Library's art sales)
The Lost Museum (MoMA's art sales)
Endangered Species (single-collector jewel-box museums)
Money in Motion (the Guggenheim's finances)
The Fine Art of Genocide? (appraisals of Hitler's art)

LA TIMES OP-ED:
Museums Can't Compete (public collecting endangered)
Did the Getty Get Off Easy? (California Attorney General's report)

ART IN AMERICA:
Refreshing the Smithsonian (the renovated SAAM and NPG)
The Atrium That Ate the Morgan (Renzo Piano's addition)
Hot Pots and Potshots (controversies over museum antiquities)
Musings on Museums (book review of "Whose Muse?")

NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO:
Criticism of AAM's Cultural Diplomacy Initiative

NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO:
Fall '07 Art Auctions
Metropolitan Museum's "Age of Rembrandt" Show
Commentary on the Art Market
Tour of Sculpture Gardens, with Slideshow
Audio Commentary on the Met's New Greek and Roman Galleries
Glenn Lowry's Unorthodox Compensation Package
Commentary on the Art Market

PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC RADIO:
Museums' Purchase and Sale of Eakins' Works (about one-third of the way into the program)
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' sale of Eakins' "The Cello Player"

BBC-TV:
Impressionist/Modern Auction at Sotheby's

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