May 2011
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Welcome readers new and old....
3rd of May has added a lot of new followers in the last week or so. Welcome all, and thanks for joining my journalism + semi-curatorial project.
I also edit and write the blog Modern Art Notes (which features art criticism and other art journalism), which I hope you’ll read. Please follow me on Twitter, too!
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Today on Modern Art Notes: Why are NYC's biggest...
So what in the name of Coldwell Banker is going in with New York’s art museums?
In the last week, MoMA has added space on West 53rd Street by buying the American Folk Art Museum’s building. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has added space by taking over the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Upper East Side building. That just-announced arrangement takes effect in 2015. The Whitney...
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My latest column in Modern Painters magazine
In the last six months or so, governments in the United Kingdom and in the United States have made huge, job-killing cuts in arts spending. Quick quiz: Who has made the deeper cuts: The Conservatives-led coalition government in the UK, or Barack Obama and the Democrats in the US?
The answer may surprise you. My latest column in Modern Painters magazine takes a look at spending cuts in the UK and...
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The art: Andrea Zittel, Sufficient Self, 2004. Zittel describes the video as “a diaristic documentation of life at A-Z West, a thirty-acre compound that integrates the production, use and viewing of work into a single location. Developed around the notion of an ‘intimate universe’ the video presents a vision of the desert region as well as events and philosophies that inspire new...
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Today on Modern Art Notes: I wonder, if you write...
This is astonishing.
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Should art museums be free? In two posts, Modern...
Over the course of two posts late last week and today, I’ve used recent data from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to posit this question: At what point should an art museum make general admission free to the public?
For example, LACMA derives about three percent of its revenue from admissions fees. Is that such a small amount that they’d better fulfill their mission, serve their...
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