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2008.09.05: Rutelli in LA: "The Great Repatriator" or "The Great Prevaricator"?
2008.09.05: Desperately Seeking John McCain's Arts Policy
2008.09.04: New Wall Street Journal Magazine: Art and Fashion Included
2008.09.04: More on New York's Musical Museum Chairs: Temkin and Armstrong
2008.09.03: My NY Public Radio Commentary on the MoMA/Guggenheim Appointments UPDATED
2008.09.03: Guggenheim Candidate Richard Armstrong and the "V" Word
2008.09.02: NY Sun's Guggenheim Director Scoop---Is It Richard Armstrong? UPDATED
2008.09.02: MoMA Announces Elderfield's Replacement...but only to the NY Times
2008.09.02: Rutelli Visits the Getty to Make Nice
2008.09.02: Little Krasner Images: An Irreverent Photo Essay
2008.09.01: Labor [Day] of Love: Family Wedding, Future Daughter-in-Law, WSJ Krasner Review UPDATED
2008.08.28: The New "Art in America": Vetrocq Vets the Masthead
2008.08.27: More on Hollein: Another U.S. Museum Connection; "Too American"?
2008.08.27: Name That Met Director: The Game Show's Final Round
2008.08.27: Hirst Skull to Rijksmuseum Exhibition, Curated by Diamond Damien
2008.08.26: Obama Drama: Tax Fairness for Artists, Impact Film Festival
2008.08.25: Hirstians vs. Koonsians: Two Warring Camps?
2008.08.25: John Russell, 89: The Kinder, Gentler Critic
2008.08.22: Iowa Brouhaha: WSJ's Eric Gibson Calls for Enforcement of Deaccession Standards
2008.08.20: Crystal Bridges: Alice Walton's $488-Million Museum
2008.08.20: A Brief that Strains Belief: Fisk's Legal Flip-Flop
2008.08.19: Hoving's Ravings: Been to the Met Lately?
2008.08.19: Andy Warhol Chocolates? Licensing Goes Gooey
2008.08.18: PA Attorney General Candidate Joins the Battle of the Barnes
2008.08.15: Fisk Files Appeals Brief for Collection-Sharing Deal with Alice Walton
2008.08.14: The Whitney's Downtown Dilemma: In Irreverent Street-Art Photo Essay
2008.08.13: You Can Hear It Now (finally!): My WNYC Commentary on the Whitney's Expansion
2008.08.13: Repose for Iowa's Pollock? Museum's Director Is Optimistic UPDATED WITH AAMD STATEMENT
2008.08.12: Audio Glitch: My Not-Yet-Online Radio Commentary on the Whitney Museum Expansion
2008.08.12: AAM's New Antiquities Acquisition Standards: More Sweeping than AAMD's
2008.08.11: Downtown Whitney Lovefest, Continued: City Commission's Vote, CultureGrrl's Radio Commentary UPDATED
2008.08.11: Vamping in the Hamptons: Pollock-Krasner House Gives Lee Her Due
2008.08.08: More on Iowa Pollock: University Museum Official Was My Tipster
2008.08.07: University of Iowa's Pollock: Possible Source of Flood-Recovery Cash?
2008.08.07: Tales from the 10Q: Details on Sotheby's Guarantees
2008.08.07: "Spiral Jetta": Chicago Museum Spokeswoman's Literary Coup
2008.08.06: Auction Report, First Half of 2008: Mostly Sunny, Some Clouds
2008.08.05: Collection Sharing: Gary Tinterow Does It Right
2008.08.04: The "Richard Hamilton" Question: What is it that makes art rankings so appealing?
2008.08.01: Ronald Lauder's Trophy Kirchner Gets MoMA Showcase
2008.07.31: Damien The E-Mail? A Cryptic Missive to CultureGrrl
2008.07.30: Philippe The Exhibition: His Acquisitions Become a Show and a Syllabus
2008.07.30: National Gallery's Flood Preparedness (and a correction)
2008.07.29: Damien The Auction: A Career "Retrospective" of Brand New Works
2008.07.29: Pssst! Wanna Buy the Salander-O'Reilly Townhouse?
2008.07.28: Guernica's Condition: Robust or Fragile?
2008.07.26: News Flash: David Franklin Court Documents Unsealed; Canada National Gallery's Conflicts Revealed
2008.07.25: BlogBack: Kwame Opoku Responds to Michael Conforti
2008.07.25: Major Washington Museums at Serious Risk for Flooding
2008.07.25: Gunning for Gunningham: A Dispatch from Banksy?
2008.07.24: Central Park Goes to Hell in a Handbag
2008.07.23: The Banksy/Robin Gunningham Search: CultureGrrl Is Number One on Google
2008.07.23: Michael Conforti Q&A About AAMD and Antiquities
2008.07.23: Punch List for the Clark's Ando: Window Shades and Concrete
2008.07.21: Follow-Ups: Guggenheim, Lascaux, Vuitton, Qatar, Shelby White, Acropolis Museum
2008.07.21: Coptic Antics: The Story Behind the Brooklyn Fakes
2008.07.18: Freedom of Information: More Legal Action on the David Franklin Fracas
2008.07.18: My Coptic Art Fakes Commentary: Monday on WNYC, Today on CultureGrrl
2008.07.17: My Commentary on Brooklyn's Coptic Fakes: Tomorrow on New York Public Radio
2008.07.17: David Franklin Goes to Court Against National Gallery of Canada UPDATED TWICE
2008.07.17: LA MOCA's Vuitton-Murakami Morass (and Brooklyn's non-response)
2008.07.16: Department of Bad Exhibition Titles: "Younger Than Jesus" at the New Museum
2008.07.15: Fisk Appeal of Stieglitz Collection Decision "Could Take Years"
2008.07.14: "Banksy" Died Four Years Ago? Robin Gunningham's Death Notice
2008.07.14: BlogBack: Berkeley Architecture Professor on Ando at the Clark
2008.07.14: Market Nexus: Frick Appoints Sotheby's Vice Chairman to Its Board
2008.07.10: NY Times Dismantles Its Piano
2008.07.10: Sherman Lee, Titan Among Museum Directors, Dies at 90
2008.07.09: BlogBack: Michael Conforti on Tadao Ando
2008.07.09: Clash of Perfectionists: Ando and Conforti at the Clark
2008.07.08: My Clark Art Institute/Tadao Ando Article in Tomorrow's Wall Street Journal UPDATED
2008.07.08: More on Abu NYU and Dueling Arab MoMAs Planned for Qatar, Dubai
2008.07.07: NY Magazine on the Ground Zero Mess: Call in SuperPhilippe
2008.07.07: David Franklin, Deputy Director of National Gallery of Canada, Abruptly Departs UPDATED
2008.07.03: Lascaux's Administrator Candid about Continued Condition Problems
2008.07.02: Whitney Lovefest at City Planning Commission Hearing
2008.07.02: Made at MASS MoCA: Ed Lifson Captures Sol LeWitts-in-Progress
2008.07.01: More Museum Objects Falling Down: The Met's Della Robbia UPDATED
2008.07.01: MacGregor and the Met: Bloomberg News Joins "Shoot the Headline Writer"
2008.06.30: Gloves Off: Sozanski Socks the Barnes Move
2008.06.30: Full Text of Governmental Accord for Louvre Abu Dhabi
2008.06.27: Towards a Ceasefire in the Antiquities Wars: The Next Step (Part II)
2008.06.26: Tadao Ando: Dubious in Abu Dhabi
2008.06.25: Towards a Ceasefire in the Antiquities Wars: The Next Step (Part I)
2008.06.24: News Flash: Official Annoucement of Changes at Art in America Magazine
2008.06.24: Philly Press Lunch: Rishel Rises to the Occasion
2008.06.24: News Flash: Philippe Vergne Named Director of Dia Art Foundation
2008.06.23: News Flash: Elizabeth Baker Resigns as Editor of Art in America
2008.06.23: Italy's New Culture Minister Signals Desire for More Antiquity Repatriations
2008.06.20: Philadelphia Inquirer Report on Yesterday's d'Harnoncourt Tribute
2008.06.20: "Rembrandt Laughing"...and So Is Its Anonymous Buyer
2008.06.19: Anne d'Harnoncourt Day: A Reminder
2008.06.19: Hirst First: Bypassing Dealers with Direct-to-Sotheby's Sale of New Work
2008.06.18: Succession Obsession: Mediabistro Misconstrues CultureGrrl's Met Picks
2008.06.18: Masterpiece-for-a-Day: The Whitney's Speedy Loan of Timeless Gorky
2008.06.17: Another Getty Antiquities Scandal: Villa's Dumbed-Down Installation
2008.06.17: Met Gives Up Its 10-Year Rolling Rule for Antiquities Acquisitions
2008.06.16: News Flash: No Barnes Decision Appeal by Montgomery County UPDATED TWICE
2008.06.13: Guggenheim in Vilnius? Maybe Not.
2008.06.12: AAMD's New Antiquities Acquisitions Registry Now Online (but not the objects)
2008.06.11: More D'Harnoncourt Tributes: A Day of Appreciation; Official Memorial Service
2008.06.11: Who Should Succeed Philippe at the Met? My Last Word (maybe)
2008.06.10: Perls of Wisdom: Nuggets from Late NYC Dealer Klaus Perls, 96
2008.06.09: Auction Houses' $36-Million Antitrust Settlement Coupon Windfall
2008.06.09: My Anne d'Harnoncourt Tribute in the Philadelphia Inquirer UPDATED
2008.06.06: Martin Filler Strikes Again: Report from Whitney Downtown's Press Luncheon
2008.06.06: News Flash: Randolph College Wins in Court; Maier Museum's Collection Loses
2008.06.05: Sex and the Metropolitan: Linda Wolk-Simon Reveals All
2008.06.04: New Guggenheim Fundraiser: Construction Debris as Jewelry
2008.06.04: Technology Apology: "Philippe Baby" Crashes UPDATED
2008.06.04: News Flash: AAMD Tightens Guidelines for Acquiring Antiquities
2008.06.03: More From Philly Inquirer on D'Harnoncourt: Edward Sozanski, Melissa Dribben and Me
2008.06.03: Succession Obsession: Scuttlebutt at the Met's Press Lunch
2008.06.02: Anne d'Harnoncourt, 64, Dies UPDATED
2008.06.02: "Philippe Baby": New to the CultureGrrl Songbook
2008.05.30: Sex and the Critic: Can Venerable Male Reviewers Judge this Movie?
2008.05.30: Friends, Romans and Classicists: Is This the Head of Julius Caesar?
2008.05.29: Long Live Elliott Carter! An Operatic Double-Bill?
2008.05.28: News Flash: Maier Museum's Deaccessioned Tamayo Fetches $7.21 Million
2008.05.28: End of an Era for Whitney's Board: Leonard Lauder, Chuck Close Step Down
2008.05.28: The Debate Over "Context": From Elgin to Eakins
2008.05.27: Jewels and the City: Baubles from Embattled Esmerian's Business Said to Adorn Sarah Jessica and the Girls
2008.05.27: BlogBack: Christian Kleinbub Takes Cuno's Side on Cultural Property
2008.05.23: Text of Met Director's Job Description: Could You Be the Next Philippe?
2008.05.22: BlogBack: Ron Hartwig on the Getty Trust's Finances (and the Getty Goats)
2008.05.22: Getty Operating Deficit Soars: Wood Cuts Jobs, Goats Cut Underbrush UPDATED
2008.05.22: BlogBacks on Randolph College's Sale of Tamayo
2008.05.21: Cuno Conundrum: Whose Law Is It, Anyway?
2008.05.21: Museum Objects Falling Down: London's National Gallery, New York's Metropolitan Museum
2008.05.20: Philippe at Abu NYU: Will He Still Blast Rent-a-Louvre?
2008.05.19: New York Public Radio Podcast: You CAN Hear Me Now (really!)
2008.05.19: Tamayo, the First Maier Museum Deaccession, Offered Next Week
2008.05.19: Art Newspaper Pegs Russian Industrialist as Buyer of Freud and Bacon (UPDATED WITH MY WNYC PODCAST)
2008.05.19: Due to Technical Difficulties...Hear Me on WNYC at 8:40 (maybe)
2008.05.18: My Art-Market Analysis Tomorrow on New York Public Radio
2008.05.16: Judge Ott Declines to Reopen Barnes Case; Appeal Still Possible
2008.05.15: Another Sotheby's/Christie's Windfall: Unredeemed Auction Settlement Coupons
2008.05.15: Hits and Misses at Sotheby's Highest-Grossing Auction in Its History
2008.05.14: Contemporary Auction: Christie's Roars Back
2008.05.14: My "Youth vs. Experience" Musings on WNYC's Radio "Smackdown"
2008.05.14: Robert Rauschenberg, 82: Forever Young, Always Remembered
2008.05.13: Universal World Heritage...Except When It's Rent-a-Show Time
2008.05.12: CultureGrrl Represents the Geezers Tomorrow in NY Public Radio Debate
2008.05.12: Cleveland Kerfuffle: Italy Again Engages in Repatriation-by-Press
2008.05.12: Shoot the Headline Writer (Again): Bloomberg Foretells Freud's Auction Price
2008.05.09: Sotheby's First-Quarter Loss: Commission Margins Down; Buyers Premium Up UPDATED
2008.05.09: It's Official: Sandro Bondi Replaces Rutelli as Italian Culture Minister
2008.05.07: Sotheby's Impressionist/Modern Results: Relief and Vindication
2008.05.07: Early Returns: Sotheby's Sale Looks Like a Winner (UPDATED TWICE)
2008.05.07: NY Times Auction Report: Shoot the Headline Writer
2008.05.06: Is the Art Market Still Hot? At Christie's, Not
2008.05.06: Pondering Pre-Auction Imponderables: Weak Dollar, Emerging-Market Trophy Hunters
2008.05.06: "Superheroes" Catalogue Intro: Did Philippe Have to Write This?
2008.05.05: Auctioneers Gone Wild? Unfair "Fair Market Value"
2008.05.04: Oligarch and Sheikh: The Art Newspaper Names Buyers of "Rockefeller Rothko" and Koons "Heart"
2008.05.02: Recession Obsession: Have Auction Houses Tightened Up on Guarantees?
2008.05.01: Westside Whitney: Fortress Mentality?
2008.05.01: Berlusconi Crony: Is This Italy's New Culture Minister?
2008.04.30: What's Gross About the "Gross Clinic" Deaccessions
2008.04.29: Vote of Confidence: Blog Slogger Makes British Prof's Top-10 List
2008.04.28: News Flash: Austrian Supreme Court Rejects Bloch-Bauer Heirs' Appeal for Sixth Klimt
2008.04.28: Calatrava Trauma: Bird Man Gets His Wings Clipped in Manhattan
2008.04.28: Art History Productivity Index: Rankled by Another University Ranking
2008.04.27: Cult of CultureGrrl: Readers' "Blog Slog" Comments Posted
2008.04.25: My Public Radio Commentary on the Philadelphia Museum's Eakins Disposals
2008.04.24: "Gross Clinic" Disposals: Why is this "Cowboy Singing"?
2008.04.23: Middle-Aged Blog Slog: CultureGrrl's Second-Anniversary Makeover
2008.04.22: Koons Lampoon: Joy to the Met, Sorrow at LACMA
2008.04.21: BlogBack: Arts Writer Brett Campbell Defends Brad Cloepfil
2008.04.21: News Flash: Rutelli Out as Culture Minister
2008.04.21: Nouvel News: MoMA Monster Gets Drubbed (and defended)
2008.04.18: Back from Japan: Updates on Stories We've Been Following
2008.04.17: Lascaux Walls Being Scraped, Watchdog Group Alleges
2008.04.16: MAD's Striptease: Cloepfil Shows New York What He's Got
2008.04.15: Rating the New Museums: The Best (and Worst) of 2007---Part II
2008.04.14: Rating the New Museums: The Best (and Worst) of 2007---Part I
2008.04.11: Nouvel Riches: Pritzker Gold, Tower of Glass
2008.04.10: John Richardson Tribute: The Case of the Missing Medals
2008.04.09: Lauder to the Whitney: There's No Place Like Home
2008.04.08: Sejima and Nishizawa at the New Museum
2008.04.07: Ouroussoff on Atlantic Yards and Hudson Yards: The Gray Lady's Guide to Contemporary Civics
2008.04.04: News Flash: Fisk Files Appeal of Stieglitz Collection Decision
2008.04.04: Where in the World Is Lee Going? And Who Is "Filler-ing" In (again)?
2008.04.04: Murakami/Murakami: LA/Brooklyn Installation Transformations
2008.04.04: Protesters Demonstrate Outside Brooklyn Museum's Kanye West Fest
2008.04.04: Murakami Musings: My WNYC Podcast
2008.04.03: My Murakami Musings: Tomorrow on New York Public Radio
2008.04.03: Louvre Reportedly Sending Masterpieces to Italy for a Steep Fee
2008.04.03: The Shelby White Files: Images from a Restitution
2008.04.02: Murakami Meets the Press
2008.04.02: Management Shake-Up at Edith Wharton's Estate, The Mount
2008.04.01: Banksy Performs for YouTube? You Decide. UPDATED
2008.04.01: Italy Posts the Shelby White List of Relinquished Objects
2008.03.31: Heirs Still Seeking the Sixth Bloch-Bauer Klimt
2008.03.31: BlogBack: Anthony Calnek on NY Public Library's Kindred Gamers
2008.03.31: Details of the Getty's "Confidential" Agreement with Italy
2008.03.30: Nouvel Wins the Pritzker Prize (and Media Embargo Broken Again, UPDATED)
2008.03.28: New Acropolis Museum Photo Essay: A Sneak Preview
2008.03.28: Brooklyn/Murakami/Vuitton: It Keeps Getting Worse
2008.03.27: Italy's Rutelli Expects to Reclaim "Hundreds of Other Works"; Shelby White's Returns to Be Exhibited
2008.03.27: Krensmania in Der Spiegel: "Pharaonic" Aspirations Undiminished
2008.03.27: More on the Whitney Buy-ennial, and a Schjeldahl Thumbs-Up
2008.03.26: Sischy and Brant, Together Again...at Vanity Fair
2008.03.26: Rijksmuseum Decides Against Buying Pricey Rembrandt Portrait
2008.03.26: Out of Africa: Kwame Opoku's Repatriation Advocacy
2008.03.25: Esmerian's "Peaceable Kingdom," Failing to Sell Privately, Goes Public at Sotheby's
2008.03.25: Kindred Gamers: NY Public Library as Video Parlor
2008.03.25: Guggenheim Guadalajara: Not a Dead Deal?
2008.03.24: Vuitton News Flash: Prince Handbags Are Not at the Walker...Yet
2008.03.24: News Flash: No Decision Today on Reopening Barnes Case
2008.03.24: Boutique Freak: Marketing Murakami Vuittons in Brooklyn
2008.03.24: New Acropolis Museum: Marring the Marbles
2008.03.22: Art Gets the Fashion Treatment (again) in NY Times Magazine
2008.03.21: Barnes Foundation Case Back in Court Monday
2008.03.20: Athwart Athens: My Narrow Escape from a Chaotic Day
2008.03.20: Athwart Athens UPDATED: My Politically Incorrect Moments at the Cultural Property Conference
2008.03.19: Athwart Athens: The Return of the Grrl
2008.03.19: John Lautner: New Book on the Far-Out Architect
2008.03.19: Bluemner Back in Bloom in the Bronx
2008.03.18: Selldorf's Co-ops: Leaning Tower of Chelsea?
2008.03.17: Cooper-Hewitt's Rococo: Behind the Curve
2008.03.15: Smithsonian Names New Secretary: G. Wayne Who?
2008.03.14: Fisk to Appeal Ruling Against Stieglitz Collection Deal with Walton's Crystal Bridges
2008.03.14: Dubious in Dubai: Rem the Radical Sheikh
2008.03.13: The Case of the Disappearing Museum Director
2008.03.12: Smithsonian's Ned Rifkin is Out; His Controversial Report, Tabled
2008.03.12: A Gaffe in the NY Times "Museums" Section
2008.03.12: Parrish Fashions: Inside the Herzog & de Meuron Selection Process
2008.03.11: The CultureGrrl Curriculum: Assigned Reading for Columbia Law School Students
2008.03.11: Introducing CultureGrrl's First Guest Blogger: Filler by Filler
2008.03.10: O'Keeffe Museum Drops Lawsuit Against Fisk (Again)
2008.03.10: My Antiquities Q&A with the Getty's Michael Brand: Life after the Givebacks
2008.03.10: Randolph College Plays Hardball; Anti-Art Sales Lawsuit Dropped
2008.03.07: Witty Whitney Biennial: An Appreciative Photo Essay
2008.03.06: Court Decision: Fisk Can Keep Stieglitz Collection, Subject to No-Sale and Must-Exhibit Stipulations
2008.03.06: The CultureGrrl Curriculum: The Syllabus Travels to Greece
2008.03.06: Whitney Biennial, Continued: My WNYC Podcast
2008.03.06: BlogBack: Director Louis Grachos on the Albright-Knox Expansion
2008.03.05: My Whitney Biennial Mini-Review Tomorrow on New York Public Radio
2008.03.05: National Gallery Invades Baltimore Outskirts: Meyerhoff Outpost Planned
2008.03.05: Is Richard Gluckman the Albright-Knox Expansion's "World-Renowned Architect"?
2008.03.04: Witty at the Whitney: A Most Endearing Biennial
2008.03.04: WhitneySpeak, Biennial Edition: What Are They Thinking?
2008.03.04: Albright-Knox: We've Sold Our Art; Now Let's Expand Our Building!
2008.03.03: Folk Art Museum Addresses the Esmerian Mess (UPDATED)
2008.03.03: Munch's Recovered "Scream" and "Madonna" Soon Back on View
2008.03.03: New Format, Same Old Grrl
2008.03.03: The CultureGrrl Curriculum: Help! I Need a Law Degree!
2008.03.03: Starting Over, Krens-Style
2008.03.01: Quick Takes: Dia Departure, Büchel Debacle UPDATED, Un-Gifted Folk Art Museum
2008.02.29: More on Tom Krens from James Russell (and me) UPDATED
2008.02.29: More on Eli Broad from Martin Filler (and me)
2008.02.28: D'Offay Offs Broad: Parading a Different "Paradigm"
2008.02.28: My WNYC Krens Commentary and Where the Guggenheim Should Go From Here
2008.02.28: UPDATED: CultureGrrl on Krens Today on New York Public Radio
2008.02.27: Tom Krens, Global Impresario, to Leave the Guggenheim
2008.02.27: Sotheby's Contemporary Success and More on Guarantees
2008.02.27: Updates: Edith Wharton, Curtis Wong, NY Philharmonic in N. Korea
2008.02.27: University Promptly Returns to Italy What Tempelsman Donated
2008.02.26: Sotheby's Addresses Concerns Over Guarantees While Reporting Bullish 2007 Results
2008.02.26: NY Times Roils Cultural Property Experts With Two Problematic Op-Eds---Part II
2008.02.26: New at the Met: Italian Loans Prominently Labeled
2008.02.26: NY Times Roils Cultural Property Experts With Two Problematic Op-Eds---Part I
2008.02.25: Curtis Wong's Mystery Art/Tech Project
2008.02.25: Edith Wharton Cliffhanger: No Mirth at the Home of "House of Mirth"
2008.02.23: Bührle Theft Musings: Law Professor's Rationale for Return of Half the Haul
2008.02.22: Brooklyn's Murakami Show: Decision Pending on Vuitton Shop
2008.02.22: Travel Website's Top 10 Art Museums
2008.02.21: Cai-Wire Act: The Guggenheim and Its Engineers Pull Off Their Stunt UPDATED
2008.02.21: MeTube: CultureGrrl (with Cai's help) is a Performance Artist
2008.02.21: Fisk Changes Its Tune and Will Fund Gallery for Stieglitz Collection
2008.02.21: Catherine Palace's Original Amber Room Found?
2008.02.20: BCAM's People, Places and Art: An Irreverent Photo Essay, Part II
2008.02.19: Renzo Piano's Architecture for LACMA: An Irreverent Photo Essay
2008.02.19: My Piece on the Broad Contemporary Art Museum in Tomorrow's Wall Street Journal
2008.02.19: Bührle Update: Two Found, Two to Go
2008.02.18: News Flash: Bührle Collection Lost-and-(Possibly) Found
2008.02.18: Cai Guo-Qiang Time: Dueling Magazine Profiles; MASS MoCA Snub
2008.02.17: Art Thieves and NY Times Photo Editors: What Are They Thinking?
2008.02.15: News Flash: Court to Lift Injunction Against Maier Sales
2008.02.15: Links to Revive Tink: Met Debt, MoMA Notables, White-Funded Institute's First Show, Wadsworth Directorship, Thieves' Motives
2008.02.14: Art Police Blotter: Theft, Smuggling, Manslaughter
2008.02.13: Brain Drain to Abu Dhabi, Continued
2008.02.13: Major U.S. Museums Have a Ban Chiang Problem
2008.02.13: More Denver Museum Building Woes
2008.02.12: Philippe de Montebello's Unobtrusive Curatorial Interventions
2008.02.12: Frisking Fisk: Parsing O'Keeffe's Angry Letter, and What Should Happen Next
2008.02.11: More on the Getty's Euphronios (and how it differs from the ex-Met's)
2008.02.11: More Details on Yesterday's Armed Heist from the Bührle Collection UPDATED
2008.02.11: Judge Nixes Fisk-Walton Deal for Stieglitz Collection
2008.02.08: At Least The Getty Still Has Its Euphronios
2008.02.07: Headhunter Protocol and the Met Director Derby
2008.02.07: Court Backs Fisk's Opposition to Walton's Counter-Suitor
2008.02.06: Lazy in LA: Three Days, Three Museums
2008.02.05: Where in the World is Lee Going?
2008.02.05: Memo to the Met's Search Firm: How Do You Spell "Hirschhorn"?
2008.02.04: Roman Omen? Italy Nixes Reproduction for Morgan Show
2008.02.04: Feds Manhandle Art in Chicago
2008.02.03: The Greatest Exhibition of Football Artistry Ever Seen!
2008.02.01: What's the Worst Thing that Can Happen to an Artist's Reputation?
2008.02.01: Tennessee AG Likes New Proposal for Fisk's Stieglitz Collection UPDATED
2008.01.31: New Smithsonian Secretary Expected to be Named in March: Down to 10 Finalists
2008.01.31: Curatorial Directors-in-Training Matched with Museum Superstars
2008.01.31: Robert Olson: Call Your Lawyer
2008.01.30: A Thoughtful, Detailed Rebuttal to My "Make Art Loans, Not War" Op-Ed
2008.01.30: Clueless on the Kos: Museums and Donors' Appraisals
2008.01.30: Brooklyn's In-Your-Face Antiquities Policy UPDATED
2008.01.29: Links for Your Mink: More Thai Travails, Artful Forgers, Dubious Fisk Solution, Possible Theft-to-Order, Preemptive Loot Suits, Claims on Exhibition Proceeds
2008.01.29: Museums on TV: New Ovation Deal; Smithsonian's Report about Showtime Controversy
2008.01.29: Another Steve Cohen Loan at the Met
2008.01.29: "A Don's Life" Lives on My Blogroll
2008.01.28: Advertise on CultureGrrl: Reach the Artworld's Finest
2008.01.28: Art in America Magazine's State of Uncertainty
2008.01.27: Federal Case: Californians' Comments Make Bad Situation Worse
2008.01.26: Cambridge Loves CultureGrrl: "Don's Life" Classics Professor on a BBC Podcast
2008.01.25: More on the Raiders of the Los (Angeles) Art
2008.01.25: LA Museum Raids Prompt Premature Talk of Scandal
2008.01.24: James Cuno Discusses the Met's Directorship
2008.01.23: Der Spiegel Raises Doubts About Whether "Artemis" is Ancient
2008.01.23: The Met's New Kapoor Reflects the Shark (and You)
2008.01.22: Christie's Dubious "Leadership" in 2007 Sale Results
2008.01.22: Responses to LA Times Op-Ed, "Make Art Loans, Not War"
2008.01.21: Michael Brand Says the Getty Bronze Stays; Describes Artworks as "Migrants"
2008.01.21: My LA Times Op-Ed: More Ceasefire Proposals for the Cultural-Property Wars
2008.01.20: National Geographic's Culture War Videos
2008.01.20: My Cultural-Property Op-Ed in Tomorrow's LA Times
2008.01.18: Shelby White and the "Why Me?" Antiquities Defense UPDATED
2008.01.18: Philip Conisbee, Consummate Scholar and Communicator
2008.01.17: Italy Continues to Pursue Getty Bronze
2008.01.17: Mourning Sarpedon: Italy's Three Consolation Loans Don't Console
2008.01.17: Department of Missing Departments: Brooklyn's European Paintings Vanish
2008.01.16: And in Other Eli Broad News...
2008.01.16: LACMA and Met Updates: Contemporary Gallery Namers Named; Hirst Shark Gets New Roommate
2008.01.16: An Early Rave for the "Stuffed Shark" Book
2008.01.15: Kindred Spirits: Alice Walton and Linda Ferber
2008.01.15: Mona Lisa Is Identified...and She Speaks!
2008.01.14: Partial Relief from 2006 Fractional-Gift Deal-Killers Enacted
2008.01.14: Pictures from a Restitution: What the Met Will Get
2008.01.13: NY Times on the Met Succession and the Broad Recision
2008.01.11: Broad-sided: Michael Govan on the Elusive Eli
2008.01.10: Euphronios' Last Day is Sunday; Italy to Substitute a Jug, Cup and Vase
2008.01.10: Clark Snares de Montebello...at Least for a Night
2008.01.10: Slaying the MoMA Monster: Russell to the Rescue
2008.01.10: My Q&A with Philippe de Montebello
2008.01.09: My De Montebello Appraisal for New York Public Radio
2008.01.09: Department of Renamings: Barnes Foundation, "Artemis"
2008.01.09: Coming Today on WNYC: My De Montebello Assessment
2008.01.09: Metropolitan Imagery: The Empty Directors' Chairs
2008.01.09: More on Philippe de Montebello's Departure
2008.01.08: De Montebello Ends His Reign
2008.01.08: LACMA Lays an Egg: Broad Reneges
2008.01.08: New IRS Form 990: More Reporting Requirements, More Transparency
2008.01.07: Stag Scoop: Will CultureGrrl Get Credit?
2008.01.07: Free "Men of the Docks"!
2008.01.07: Landmark Nazi-Loot Court Decision Says "Forced Sale" Equals Theft
2008.01.06: Met Antiquities Shuffle: Win One, Lose One UPDATED
2008.01.04: James Snyder and a Prominent Curator on Nazi-Loot Issues
2008.01.04: Bonfire of the Vanities: Indian Museum Chief's $48,500 Portrait UPDATED
2008.01.03: Diamond Damien's Share in $100-Million Skull Is Reportedly 24 Percent
2008.01.03: Israel Museum Mounts Exhibitions Seeking Rightful Owners of Nazi Loot UPDATED
2008.01.02: What the Korean-Bound NY Philharmonic Will Have on Its iPods
2008.01.02: Artworld Luminaries' 2008 Resolutions UPDATED
2007.12.31: The Year in CultureGrrl: 2007
2007.12.30: BlogBack: Greg Sandow on NY Philharmonic's North Korean Visit
2007.12.28: Another Smithsonian Compensation Controversy: Rick West's Expenses Exposed
2007.12.28: AAMD Issues New Statement on Deaccessioning
2007.12.28: Department of Monumental Copyrights, New York City Division UPDATED
2007.12.27: BlogBack: A Korean-American on Philharmonic's Korean Gambit
2007.12.27: Links While We're on the Brink: Copyrighting the Pyramids, Blocking Coello's Export from U.K., Adding Up the Auctions
2007.12.27: Rutelli Deploys Universal Museum-ists' Own Rhetoric Against Them
2007.12.26: NY Philharmonic's Korean Overture: An American in Pyongyang
2007.12.24: Links While You Clink: Italy Unveils Trophies, Greece Unveils New Museum, Barnes Case Delayed, Afghan and Russian Shows On, Guggenheim Partly Unveiled
2007.12.23: My Final Hipster Post?
2007.12.21: Faux "Faun": Is It Museums' Grandest Goof Since Van Meegeren?
2007.12.20: LACMA's Fractional Gifts: Why the Lazarofs Might Have Chanced It UPDATED
2007.12.20: Philadelphia Museum's New Perelman Building: An Irreverent Photo Essay (Part II)
2007.12.20: Royal Academy May Have Lost Russian Museums Show Over Immunity-from-Seizure Uncertainties UPDATED
2007.12.19: Philadelphia Museum's New Perelman Building: An Irreverent Photo Essay (Part I)
2007.12.18: Magna Carta Knocked Down at $19 Million UPDATED
2007.12.18: My Cultural Moment in the Rehab Joint
2007.12.18: Metropolitan Museum's Annual Report: Big Operating Surplus, Big Debt Increase, Big Lieberman Bequest
2007.12.18: News Flash: Friends of the Barnes' Legal Case in Disarray UPDATED
2007.12.17: Edgers on How Eakin Got the True Story
2007.12.17: Links to Get Out the Kinks: Marion True, LACMA's Fractional Gift, Ouroussoff's Calatrava Flipflop
2007.12.15: BlogBack: George Shackelford on the Faux Faun
2007.12.13: Chicago's Faux "Faun" Inspires Faux Journalism
2007.12.13: Elderfield Too Elderly? MoMA's Mandatory Retirement Beckons
2007.12.12: Political Deal-Making Expedites Barnes Move to Philly
2007.12.12: Department of Bad Falls, Cultural Division
2007.12.12: Randolph College Accreditation Warning Removed: Can Maier Paintings Remain?
2007.12.11: Department of Strange Lawsuits: Monteleone Chariot; MoMA and Guggenheim Picassos
2007.12.11: BlogBack: Art Historian Boldly Defends Boldini
2007.12.11: Art Basel Miami Wrap Up
2007.12.10: Self-Censorship: CultureGrrl Takes Down Two Photos
2007.12.10: Lascaux's Prehistoric Paintings Still Endangered by Fungus
2007.12.10: BlogBacks: Defenders of the Met's European Installation
2007.12.09: My Mother's Hip and Me
2007.12.07: The Met's New European Galleries: The Good, the Bad and the Dumbed Down
2007.12.06: Who Bought the Guennol Lioness?
2007.12.06: Links for Your Lynx: Great Artists' Infirmities, Sitting Bull's Last Stand, Antiquities in the Bronx, Blogging and Flogging Basel Miami UPDATED
2007.12.06: BlogBack: The Met's Harold Holzer on Relocating Gertrude Stein
2007.12.05: News Flash: Guennol Lioness Fetches $57.16 Million from British Buyer
2007.12.05: The Isherwood Files: Should Donors Put Their Names on Elevators? Should Critics Speak on Ads for Events They Will Later Review?
2007.12.05: Met Revises Its Hirst Shark Warning
2007.12.05: Second Annual Art Basel Miami Sour Grapes Soufflé
2007.12.04: Gertrude Stein, Modern No More, at the Met's Reopened Galleries
2007.12.04: Guennol Lioness Auction: Brooklyn Museum to Lose Its Long-Term Loan
2007.12.03: Political Statement: Mark Wallinger Wins the Turner Prize UPDATED
2007.12.03: News Flash: Maier Art Sale Opponents Win Another Court Victory UPDATED
2007.12.03: The New Museum's Architectural Rough Spots
2007.11.30: The New Museum Respects the 'Hood UPDATED
2007.11.30: The Continuing Legal Saga of Lloyd Webber's Picasso
2007.11.30: On View at the New Museum: The Scruffy Stuff
2007.11.29: St. Louis Art Museum's Cassatt Unsold at Auction
2007.11.29: The Un-Museum: Renewed New Museum Cuts to the Edge
2007.11.29: Rome Conference Discusses American-Italian Cultural Cooperation
2007.11.29: BlogBack: Honolulu Docent on Single-Collector Exhibitions
2007.11.28: Yes! I Get to See Stoppard's "Rock 'n' Roll" on Sunday!
2007.11.28: The "Times Change" Defense for Past Antiquities Transgressions
2007.11.28: Tennessee Governor Opposes Fisk-Walton Proposal
2007.11.27: Greece Backs Off Getty-Related Case Against Marion True
2007.11.27: Hartman Jades: From Boston Museum to $41-Million Hong Kong Auctions
2007.11.27: Theatrical Musings: Broadway Strike Must End! "Celia Cruz" Must Be Reviewed!
2007.11.26: News Flash: Nicholas Penny to Direct National Gallery, London
2007.11.26: Art in Court: Maier Museum, Marion True, Getty Bronze, Andrew Lloyd Webber, "Portrait of Wally," Robert De Niro
2007.11.25: Singing Podcast: "Auctions in New York"
2007.11.23: Department of Impossible NY Times Auction Corrections
2007.11.21: Department of (Possible) Corrections: The Big-Money Auction Buyers UPDATED
2007.11.20: Guggenheim News Flash: Landmarks Preservation Commission Preserves Familiar Exterior Color
2007.11.20: Numismatists Sue Secretive Cultural Property Advisory Committee for More Transparency
2007.11.20: Post-Auction Reports Identify Clients for Whom Dealers Bought Top Lots
2007.11.19: BlogBack: Alternate Take on Alice Walton's Collecting, MoMA's Skyscraper, Hirst's Shark
2007.11.19: My Ceasefire Proposals for the Cultural-Property Wars--Part II
2007.11.19: Penn Professor-for-a-Day: My Ceasefire Proposals for the Cultural-Property Wars--Part I
2007.11.18: The Slippery Slope of Dealer Support for Museum Exhibitions
2007.11.17: VA Supreme Court Gives Big Win to Maier Museum Art Sale Opponents
2007.11.16: It's a MoMA Monster! Nouvel's Towering Ambitions
2007.11.15: More CultureGrrl Curriculum: Antiquities Agreements and Museum Acquisition Policies
2007.11.14: Contemporary Contentment: Sotheby's Happy Night
2007.11.14: Wall Street Journal Runs Buyer's Premium Correction
2007.11.14: Legal Setback for Opponents of Maier Museum Sales
2007.11.14: A Few Between-Auction Thoughts on the Market
2007.11.13: Christie's Proves There's Still Fight in the Old Bull Market
2007.11.13: Christie's Contemporary's First Six Lots: Forget the Bubble Burst Babble
2007.11.13: Orchestra Members Weigh in on How They Pass Their Down Time
2007.11.13: Reading List for the CultureGrrl Curriculum
2007.11.13: Maier Sale Opponents Seek Elimination of $10-Million Bond Requirement
2007.11.12: Hot Off the Fax Machine: Christie's Strong Stone Sale CORRECTED
2007.11.12: Overheated Art-Market Links: Does Anyone Know What's Going On?
2007.11.12: MacGregor Considers Egypt's Rosetta Stone Loan Request
2007.11.11: Met Opera's Pit Exposed; Luciano's Costumes Deflated UPDATED
2007.11.10: In the Matter of the Buyer's Premium
2007.11.09: Details on Guarantees Disclosed in Sotheby's Quarterly Report
2007.11.09: Acropolis Acrimony: MacGregor Condescends to the Greeks
2007.11.09: Sotheby's Conference Call: Striving to Quiet Art-Market Fears
2007.11.09: Tale of the Tape: Sotheby's Stock at Yesterday's Close
2007.11.08: News Flash: Court Grants Temporary Injunction Against Maier Museum Sales
2007.11.08: At Least One Auction Exceeded Expectations!
2007.11.08: London's "Independent" Has Strange Way of Defending Walton
2007.11.08: Sotheby's Publicly Traded Stock Crashes
2007.11.08: Now on Your Computer: CultureGrrl on BBC-TV
2007.11.08: Sotheby's Goes South: Lackluster Sale Raises Fears of the "C" Word
2007.11.07: Auction Links, a New WSJ Auction Blog, and New Auction Machinations Exposed
2007.11.07: My WNYC Art-Market Murmurings; BBC-TV Next?
2007.11.07: Christie's Respectable but Unspectacular Impressionist/Modern Sale
2007.11.06: My Art Auction Musings---Tomorrow on New York Public Radio
2007.11.06: Links that Stink: Christie's Maier Sales, Salander Bankruptcy, Walton Effect Redux, Abu Dhabi Museum News
2007.11.06: Can't Get to This Week's Impressionist/Modern Sales?
2007.11.05: BlogBack: Now Everyone's Seeing "Sotheby's Blue"
2007.11.05: Hawking the Auctions: An Irreverent Photo Essay
2007.11.05: Auction Podcast: Are Paintings the New Hot Stock Picks?
2007.11.04: The Face of King Tut Displayed
2007.11.03: Auction Blooper: Who Stole Carol Vogel's Heart? UPDATED
2007.11.02: Upcoming Sale Predictions: A Crystal-Ball Anthology
2007.11.02: More on the Princeton Give-Backs: "Looting Matters" Digs for Provenance
2007.11.02: Provenance Alert: Two Rediscovered Nazi-Loot Photo Albums Go to National Archives
2007.11.01: Rosetta Stone: Why the British Museum Distrusts Hawass
2007.11.01: Christie's is Cagey about Maier Museum Provenance, Discloses the Rose
2007.11.01: MASS MoCA Fundraiser: Beyond Büchel
2007.10.31: Auction Houses in the News (Or Not)
2007.10.31: Italy/Princeton Antiquities Deal: Reasons for Give-Backs Hide Behind Wall of "Confidentiality" UPDATED
2007.10.31: Hedge Hog: Steve Cohen-Loaned Works at Met, Guggenheim, MoMA
2007.10.30: Guggenheim Gets Around to Hiring a Search Firm for Director
2007.10.30: Metropolitan Museum's New Art-less Education Center
2007.10.30: Links from the Sphinx: Liz Taylor's Van Gogh, Salander O'Reilly and Sotheby's, Another Art Blog Round-Up, Another Proposal for Taichung Museum
2007.10.29: What's Missing from the Princeton/Italy Accord?
2007.10.29: Do You Find This Jon Stewart Art Authentication Spoof Funny?
2007.10.29: Parthenon Podcast: Bernard Tschumi Gets His Wish
2007.10.28: CultureGrrl's Second Podcast Attempt
2007.10.28: Rembrandt/Not Rembrandt? Bidders Take a Flyer on £2.2-Million Portrait
2007.10.26: Is an Image of Elton John Indecent? (Or Are Caption Writers Incompetent?)
2007.10.26: Cultural Exchange (or not), British-Russian Style
2007.10.26: BlogBack: Hispanic Society Habitué Decries Koran Deaccessions
2007.10.25: Goya Arrest Update: The Girlfriend Talks
2007.10.25: Links in the Pink: Alleged Goya Thief Arrested, Hispanic Society's Koran Deaccessions
2007.10.25: Cultural Patrimony Alerts: Italian Pollution Risks, French Deaccession Discussions
2007.10.24: What's the Scariest Thing About the Shark at the Met?
2007.10.24: Fisk-Crystal Bridges Deal: Trial Date Set; Walton's Spinners at Work
2007.10.24: Celebrity Watch: Clooney and Roberts at the Met; Bellows in Beverly Hills
2007.10.23: Latest Developments in Maier and Fisk Deaccession Attempts
2007.10.23: Shrink These Links: MASS MoCA Woes, Global Hermitage Shrinks, Russians Fear Legal Claims on Art Loans
2007.10.23: Detailed Analysis of the New Fractional Gifts Bill
2007.10.22: BlogBack: AAM on Its Reponse to Maier Sales
2007.10.22: Mona Lisa Revealed?
2007.10.22: Last Week's Biggest Development in Blogdom
2007.10.20: Not Funny: Indianapolis Museum's Padlocked Caravaggio
2007.10.19: Updates: Barnes Courtroom Drama, Wilmerding's NGA Board Chairmanship, Virginia Museum Association's Opposition to Maier Disposals, AAM's Silence
2007.10.19: The Arkansas Editorial of Me!
2007.10.19: As the Barnes Case Turns UPDATED
2007.10.19: Legal Tidbits: Barnes, Fractional Gifts, Salander O'Reilly
2007.10.18: How Museum Architects Torture Journalists
2007.10.18: BoboLinks: Guggenheim Bilbao Riles Anti-Terrorists; Dealers in Trouble; New Director for PAFA
2007.10.17: NY Times Raises Provenance Questions About Ronald Lauder's Collection