In my previous post on David Franklin's Sudden Shocking Exit from the directorship of the Cleveland Museum, I observed that "speculation (informed or otherwise) may run rampant" because of the vague "personal reasons" cited by the museum as the cause for this highly inopportune departure, so close upon the December opening of the museum's new Rafael Viñoly-designed West … [Read more...] about “Personal Reasons” Revealed: Steve Litt’s Detailed Report on Cleveland Museum/David Franklin Mess
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BlogBack by David Ross on Why AAMD Shouldn’t Intervene, Even Though Pennsylvania Academy Should Keep Its Hopper
David Ross, chair of MFA Art Practice at New York's School of Visual Arts (and former director of the Whitney Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Boston ICA), responds to Hopper Whopper: More on Pennsylvania Academy’s Deplorable Deaccession; Why AAMD Should Act: You are both right and wrong about the proposed Hopper sale. You are right, in that a museum with only … [Read more...] about BlogBack by David Ross on Why AAMD Shouldn’t Intervene, Even Though Pennsylvania Academy Should Keep Its Hopper
Hopper Whopper: More on Pennsylvania Academy’s Deplorable Deaccession; Why AAMD Should Act
The Hopper painting to be sold on Dec. 5 at Christie's by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is the less important of the two paintings by that artist in PAFA's collection, according to the press release issued by museum this morning to announce its planned December sale at Christie's of one of only two Hopper oils in the entire city of Philadelphia. In yesterday's … [Read more...] about Hopper Whopper: More on Pennsylvania Academy’s Deplorable Deaccession; Why AAMD Should Act
Hopper Whopper: Pennsylvania Academy to Sell Prized Streetscape to Buy Contemporary Art
More on this, here. This deplorable deaccession couldn't come at a worse time. How can the Association of Art Museum Directors convincingly argue for "the City of Detroit's responsibility to maintain and protect an invaluable cultural resource [the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts] that has been entrusted to its care for the benefit of the public,” when one of … [Read more...] about Hopper Whopper: Pennsylvania Academy to Sell Prized Streetscape to Buy Contemporary Art
Who Knew? My WSJ Piece on the Arkell Museum at Canajoharie, NY
Diane Forsberg, director of the Arkell Museum, with one of her favorite paintings in its American art collection George Inness, "The Passing Shower," c. 1860-68Photo by Lee RosenbaumLast month I wrote (here and here) about five well known art museums that are currently in extremis or slowly recovering from near-death experiences---the Detroit Institute of Arts, Corcoran … [Read more...] about Who Knew? My WSJ Piece on the Arkell Museum at Canajoharie, NY
MeTube: Warhol’s Campbell (the soup, not the Met’s director)
The calm before the storm: Entrance to Metropolitan Museum's critically slammed exhibition, enlivened by two Andy Warhol 1967 self-portraits from the Detroit Institute of ArtsAll photos by Lee RosenbaumWith the reviews mostly in, the Metropolitan Museum's Regarding Warhol is starting to seem like a train wreck: Wife-and-husband art critics Roberta Smith (NY Times) and Jerry … [Read more...] about MeTube: Warhol’s Campbell (the soup, not the Met’s director)
Campbell’s Soup: Warholian Banality at Met’s Misconceived “Regarding Warhol”
Andy Warhol regards Metropolitan Museum director Thomas Campbell at "Regarding Warhol" All photos by Lee Rosenbaum Arriving with high anticipation, I have rarely felt as big a letdown at a major exhibition as I did at Monday's press preview for the Metropolitan Museum's Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, opening next Tuesday to what is likely to be an admiring … [Read more...] about Campbell’s Soup: Warholian Banality at Met’s Misconceived “Regarding Warhol”
Endangered Art Museums: An Alarming Trend—PART II UPDATED
[Part I is here.] Last Thursday, I took note of the "alarming number of art museums [that] are currently in extremis or slowly recovering from near-death experiences," and I focused on two formerly moribund but now rebounding institutions---the Rose Art Museum and the American Folk Art Museum (whose current show at the South Street Seaport Museum was favorably reviewed the … [Read more...] about Endangered Art Museums: An Alarming Trend—PART II UPDATED
De Kooning, Degas, Donatello (to Bellini): Ambitious Loan Shows that Bucked the Permanent-Collection Trend—Part II
De Kooning Devotee: John Elderfield, chief curator emeritus of painting and sculpture, Museum of Modern Art [Part I is here.] Just when I was feeling the old art-exhibition ennui, 2011's two standout U.S. blockbusters---John Elderfield's de Kooning: A Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (to Jan. 9), and George Shackelford's and (from the Musée d'Orsay, Paris) Xavier … [Read more...] about De Kooning, Degas, Donatello (to Bellini): Ambitious Loan Shows that Bucked the Permanent-Collection Trend—Part II
Museum Imprimatur: UBS to Sell MoMA-Showcased Works at Sotheby’s UPDATED
Robert Rauschenberg, "Untitled," 1958 Presale estimate: $1-1.5 million MoMA's potential misstep has now become a mishap. In 2005, it lavished a major exhibition on works from a single corporate collection, during a time when many practical-minded, bottom line-oriented companies were thinking about liquidating their art, At least two (possibly three) works from MoMA's … [Read more...] about Museum Imprimatur: UBS to Sell MoMA-Showcased Works at Sotheby’s UPDATED
Museum Alert: Egyptian Art Collector Joseph Lewis Charged with Smuggling, Money Laundering
Under indictment: Egyptian art collector Joseph A. Lewis II A criminal indictment concerning alleged smuggling of Egyptian antiquities and money laundering, unsealed Wednesday in U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, could reverberate through the U.S. museum and collecting communities. Egyptian art collector Joseph A. Lewis II of Chesterfield County, VA, from … [Read more...] about Museum Alert: Egyptian Art Collector Joseph Lewis Charged with Smuggling, Money Laundering
Manoogian Maneuvers: Michigan Collector Owned Crystal Bridges’ Tait; May Have Purchased National Academy’s Church, Gifford
Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, "The Life of a Hunter: A Tight Fix," 1856, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art CultureGrrl readers are a devoted, savvy bunch: Two different museum curators wrote to inform me that BOTH Crystal Bridges-owned works in the Metropolitan Museum's current American Stories exhibition were previously owned by mega-collector Richard Manoogian---not just … [Read more...] about Manoogian Maneuvers: Michigan Collector Owned Crystal Bridges’ Tait; May Have Purchased National Academy’s Church, Gifford
Now at the Met: Crystal Bridges-Owned Painting Sold in 1994 by the National Academy
The American Stories exhibition that opened today at the Metropolitan Museum is an astonishing display of the museum's masterpiece-borrowing macho. Time and again I caught my breath at the audacity of the New York museum's requests for other institutions' signature works---Copley's Paul Revere from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and his Watson and the Shark from the National … [Read more...] about Now at the Met: Crystal Bridges-Owned Painting Sold in 1994 by the National Academy
Lee’s List: What CultureGrrl is Reading Today
Send a micro-donation of $1.50 my way (via my "Donate" button in the middle column), and I'll shoot you my latest links: Tennyson, Keats (for all you literary fans), Sifton (several links), MoMA/Hines (two links).Meanwhile, Canada actually did respond to yesterday's Schnorrer Shoutout: Many thanks to CultureGrrl Macro-Donors from Detroit, MI (that's pretty close) and (YES!!!) … [Read more...] about Lee’s List: What CultureGrrl is Reading Today
Lee’s List: What CultureGrrl is Reading Today
Send a micro-donation of $1.50 my way today (via my "Donate" button in the middle column), and I'll shoot you these links: African art market, Andy Warhol Museum, new book on blogs, Charles Gwathmey obit, Detroit Institute's restitutions.As expected, I've attracted some criticism for charging for links that other bloggers bestow for free. So let me try to explain: ---First, I'm … [Read more...] about Lee’s List: What CultureGrrl is Reading Today