Archives for January 2022

When I last wrote (here and here) about the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the place was in an unseemly state of administrative disarray: Its internationally respected but locally embattled director, Nathalie Bondil, having been summarily fired on July 13, 2020 from her 13-year position at the helm of the museum, fired back with a lawsuit seeking $2 million (Canadian dollars) in … [Read more...] about Unsettling Settlement: Montreal MFA & Bondil (Museum’s “Profoundly Hurt” Ex-Director) End Their Legal Dispute

As you have probably by now heard, Faith Ringgold's panegyrical painting, titled: "For the Women's House" (short for: "Women's House of Detention"), is now being repurposed from a source of aspiration for female inmates to an attraction for Brooklyn museumgoers. According to Zachary Small's NY Times report (online today), the artist believes that this is "absolutely wonderful. … [Read more...] about Brooklyn Museum Strikes Gold with Ringgold (but misgivings dull the luster)

The Metropolitan Museum's pandemic-related "Emergency Relief Fund" (ERF), parsed by me in this post, was just one of several recent aberrations in that financially challenged museum's erratic money-management maneuvers. In my decades of scrutinizing the Met's annual reports, I've never seen one as anorexic as the Annual Report for Fiscal 2021 (ended June 30). Usually a hefty … [Read more...] about Finagled Finances: A MetMuseum-ologist (me) Fleshes Out Our Premier Museum’s Anorexic Annual Report