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NPR's Report on the National Academy Sales Graham Beal comments: "The institution is there to safeguard the art. The art is not there to support the institution."...
BlogBacks: Readers Speak Out on National Academy Deaccessions Reactions, pro and con, to my Academy coverage, including one from a museum official who had interviewed for Academy's directorship....
MOCA trustees $TBD, MAN readers $2,887 A giant thank you...
Failure is an option Failing museums shouldn't remain open forever, kept alive on an IV drop of deaccessioning...
Weekend roundup Regular posting resumes with the latest from LA, NYC, Seattle, Minneapolis...
Budget Fudgit: Being the Getty Means Never Having to Say You Ran a Deficit What deficit? Although shortfalls were reported for last few years, "we have now correctly removed that line" from financial statements....
Laura Iris Blau: An Emerging Artist I've Known from (literally) Day One Exploded, shredded books read as a detonation of my generation. Ravaging "The Female Eunuch" prompts a mother-and-child reunion....
Artworld Luminaries' 2009 Resolutions Enough revelry! Let's have some reckless resolutions: Campbell, Hirst, Govan, Strick and a certain guard in Akron make my list....
The Year in CultureGrrl: 2008 A toast to my readers and a recap of major stories we've been following. Now, no more revelations; just revels!...
Neil MacGregor of British Museum is London Times' "Briton of the Year" Would U.S. newspapers ever call a museum director, "American of the Year"? MacGregor avoids "squabblings of politics"...except repatriation demands....
Thanks for 2008; please give It's the final week of the MAN-DonorsChoose.org challenge, three projects to go...
National Academy Lessons: The Fallacy of Deaccession-or-Die UPDATED Sacrificing its prime Church and only Gifford is a classic how-not-to-deaccession case study: Sell first, fundraise later?...
Sir Michael Levey, Former Director of London's National Gallery, Dies A major acquirer, important old masters scholar and author, and the driving force behind a major paintings conservation initiative....
National Gallery of Canada's New Director Hopes to Dispel Curatorial Turmoil Marc Mayer, from Montreal's Contemporary Art Museum, seems friendly towards embattled deputy director David Franklin. Jeremy Strick: Parlez-vous français?...
Artistic Channeling or Mere Coincidence? Part Deux Christoph Niemann replies. It's the answer of a real mensch....
Monday MOCA links Catch up on what you missed over the holidays. Plus: Bonus links on the Norton Simon, LACMA and Diebenkorn....
Weekend roundup A big goof in the NYT's deaccessioning magnum opus, and more...
My Q&A with Carmine Branagan, Director of the National Academy Followed tomorrow by analysis of her comments, critique of deaccession-or-die fallacy and consideration of broader ramifications for museums....
Artistic Channeling or Mere Coincidence? A witty illustration in The New Yorker bears striking resemblance to an image from Dark Roasted Blend. Have a look....
Deaccessions 101: Jori Finkel’s NY Times Survey of National Academy, Fisk, Maier, Albright-Knox, etc. Academy's Carmine Branagan gets first and last words, but Detroit's Graham Beal gets the best word: No "cannibalization" of collections....
A Lose-Lose: National Academy's Agonies and AAMD's Retaliation National Academy shouldn't have sold paintings, but the blacklisting by Association of Art Museum Directors was a step too far....
National Academy's Dysfunctionality: More Details in NY Times, LA Times CORRECTED Insulting artist-members was not a constructive move by those from within the Academy's own ranks. An Eakins deaccession identified....
LA MOCA's Makeover: Parsing the Details of the Rescue Agreement Should a cutting-edge museum be supervised by a cadre of codgers? Will permanent collections be exploited in rental shows?...
MOCA's Announcements of Reorganization and Strick's Resignation Ex-director Strick speaks! Read MOCA's official announcements here. With fiscally responsible management and Broad's cash, prognosis is guardedly optimistic....
Updating the MOCA-DonorsChoose.org challenge MOCA's trustees make a move. Can we respond?...