Wink at These Links: Flap Over American Indian Museum Director; Prediction That the Bubble Won't Burst; Candid Portrait of Schjeldahl; "La Tribune de l'Art" in English

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---Jacqueline Trescott of the Washington Post reports on protests by eight of the 25 board members of the National Museum of the American Indian over the appointment of Kevin Gover to be the museum's next director. Gover is a lawyer with no museum experience, but with an avowed "deep interest in and knowledge of Indian history and culture." The dissidents argue that all the board members, not just three, should have been consulted prior to the appointment. The Smithsonian says that the selection of the director is the responsibility of its acting secretary, Cristián Samper, and that the main functions of the board are fundraising and counseling the director.

Here's what the the Smithsonian's own Guidelines for Advisory Boards (scroll to P. 7) say:

A board should be given an appropriate role in the selection and evaluation of the director. The Secretary has ultimate authority to select the director.

---Bijan Khezri, CEO and president of the Artist Pension Trust in London, uses economic analysis to predict in today's Wall Street Journal that the contemporary art-market bubble won't burst. Before joining APT a year ago, Khezri was immersed in equity capital markets, merchant banking and the acquisition of "distressed, dormant and high risk assets through the application of advanced geophysical technology." Geophysical technology? That could be a useful tool in evaluating the Hirst skull!

---Christian Viveros-Fauné writes an admiring but unflinchingly candid profile in the Village Voice of Peter Schjeldahl, art critic for the New Yorker (and formerly for the Village Voice). Who says you need a college degree to be a great art critic?

---La Tribune de l'Art, the online French art journal that led the futile charge against the Louvre Abu Dhabi, had launched an English-language version. The Art Tribune will be not be merely an English translation of the original, but will also have distinct content.

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MY BOOK
The Complete Guide to Collecting Art (Knopf)

IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA
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:
Los Angeles' New Broad Museum of Contemporary Art
Philadelphia's New Perelman Building
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-EDS:
Make Art Loans, Not War
Museums Can't Compete (public collecting endangered)

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:
Guggenheim Director Steps Down
Philippe de Montebello's Retirement
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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