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October 31, 2007
A King Tut hat sold in Dallas by Louis Vuitton
Will someone please hose down the Dallas Morning News? The latest example is an editorial featuring this line: "...just last week, Dallas won high-profile bragging rights: the seven-month home for the internationally renowned King Tut exhibition beginning next October. It's an honor and a regional tourist draw that Dallas wrested from Houston."
No, it's none of those things. It's an "honor" to enrich a private corporation via the galleries of a non-profit art museum? No, it is shameful. Real simple: Non-profits should not be used to enrich private corporations or individuals. Someone tell the DMN, which is embarrassing itself almost every time it mentions this story.
First Italy holds a telethon to raise money to save antiquities, now Egypt is selling "trademark hats?"
Christopher Knight reviews the show of the season: Takashi Murakami at MOCA. I agree with him about the Louis Vuitton store -- more on that tomorrow. The sad thing is that there would have been no tempest about the thing at all if the museum's PR person hadn't fudged the truth about it in the first place.
Posted October 31, 2007 12:14 PM
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