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<\/a>NOT the gallery, for all you fans of schadenfreude; only the books, trinkets, and art souvenir outlet. Can the landlords now command a higher rent? LINK<\/a>. Story and image, thanks to artnet.com<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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NIEMEYER MUSEUM CURTAINS AFTER 62 DAYS!<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n <\/p>\n DALLAS WOMEN’S MUSEUM KAPUT….ART AND ARTIFACTS RETURNED TO DONORS<\/p>\n <\/p>\n AND DOESN\u2019T LOOK GOOD….<\/strong><\/p>\n WHERE HAVE ALL THE CHILDREN GONE?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS…….<\/strong><\/p>\n LACMA REDEEMED!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n _______________________________________________________________<\/p>\n For easy access to 200 previous Artopia essays by topics, go to top bar, click on ABOUT, click on ARCHIVE, then scroll down to listing by Headlines.<\/em><\/p>\n NEVER MISS AN ARTOPIA ESSAY AGAIN! FOR AN AUTOMATIC ARTOPIA ALERT contact perreault@aol.com<\/em><\/p>\n John Perreault is on Facebook. You can also follow John Perreault on Twitter: johnperreault<\/em><\/p>\n For Art Cops cartoons and other videos on Youtube: John Perreault Channel. Main \u00a0 \u00a0 John Perreault \u00a0website.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0John Perreault\u2019s\u00a0art<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ARTOPIAnews GAG SHOP MAD AVE VENUE SHUTTERED NOT the gallery, for all you fans of schadenfreude; only the books, trinkets, and art souvenir outlet. Can the landlords now command a higher rent? LINK. Story and image, thanks to artnet.com NIEMEYER MUSEUM CURTAINS AFTER 62 DAYS! 103-year old master-architect Oscar Niemeyer, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[80,189,185,13,187,186,188],"class_list":{"0":"post-1095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"tag-artopia","9":"tag-artopianews","10":"tag-gagosian","11":"tag-john-perreault","12":"tag-may-co-movie-museum","13":"tag-national-gallery-london-dallas-womens-museum","14":"tag-oscar-niemeyer-museum","15":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/The-NiemeyerMu.jpg\" "\\"The")
<\/a>103-year old master-architect Oscar Niemeyer, who designed Brasilia, must be in shock; his new museum in Spain \u00a0just opened….. and then, after 62 days, closed. To expensive to run! What will happen to it? More proof that the Bilbao Effect is a canard. Can we change the meaning of the phrase from: \u201cbuild an iconic museum and you will bring in all the tourists and put your little city on the map\u201d to \u201cit only happened with a Gehry in Bilbao and will never happen again.\u201d The Bilbao Effect also \u00a0now means false hope, or lightning never strikes twice. Niemeyer\u2019s museum looks great; other new museums \u00a0strain to be photogenic, iconic, mind-boggling and just look ugly. And, yes, are impossible places to show art. I don’t have to name the chief villains, you know who you are. LINK<\/a>.\u00a0Courtesy The Guardian.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/wmdallas.jpg\" "\\"Women's")
<\/a>The Women\u2019s Museum in Dallas to close after 11 years. High upkeep; not enough revenue…..Collection to be returned to donors….. \u201cThere were topical issues not usually found in a museum venue, such as \u2018Family Gathering: A Look into the World of Eating Disorders,\u2019 2007; \u2018Apron Chronicles: A Patchwork of American Recollections,\u2019 2006; and \u2018The Purse & the Person: A Century of Women’s Purses,\u2019 2009.\u201d LINK<\/a>. Story courtesy Huffington Post.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/NGLondon.jpg\" "\\"National")
<\/a>National Gallery in London had 100,000 fewer children visit each of the past two years. School tours are a thing of the past, as are art assignments, art classes. Cut-backs? To much focus on what will later be marketable skills? Art is\u00a0 no longer important. Britain needs computer drones, not well-rounded citizens. Is the same thing happening in the U.S.? \u00a0LINK<\/a> courtesy AAM Newsletter<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artopia\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/maysfixed.jpg\" "\\"May")
<\/a>A movie museum will open in 3 \u2013 5 years in the May Co. building in L.A., as a partnership between LACMA, owner of this moderne landmark, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. \u00a0We have our fingers crossed. Movies are history. So \u00a0LACMA has gone from eliminating its film department, to starting a new one \u00a0headed by Artopia filmcrit favorite, Elvis Mitchell, to partnering a movie museum. Turns on a dime, that LACMA.\u00a0\u00a0 Moral: Shake it up, Baby. LINK.<\/a><\/p>\n