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March 2, 2006
Odds & ends
MAN has been serious and long-format all week. First there was fixing the Getty, then there was a questionable deaccession about which the Met still refuses to talk (hmmmm!), then a two-part discussion of the Judd Foundation sale. So some lighter bits this morning:
- According to The Art Newspaper's annual museum attendance survey (which is self-reported, unverified, and to which not all museums reply), Hokusai at the Tokyo National Museum was the most-visited show in the world last year. That show opens Saturday at the Smithsonian's Sackler Gallery. The top US show was the Met's Van Gogh drawings survey. Strangely, the survey says that the King Tut show was "at LACMA" when we all know Tut was at Anschutz' Road Show Rental Gallery.
- TAN's Jason Kaufman reports that MoMA's Bill Rubin left behind a memoir. He quotes from it.
- Museums should ban gum-chewing. And maybe Frankenthalers. (Just kidding Rusty!)
- Richard Serra's latest = 42 tons.
Posted March 2, 2006 8:59 AM
