Museum Admission as an Expression of Mission
As a follow-up to my article, “Mind Games, Museums, and Suggested Donations,” I’ve been looking into the ways that museums set their general admission prices. Discussions regarding museum admission often carry moral undertones. Recently, editorials have expressed the usual mild outrage at first the Met’s and now MoMA’s price hikes from $20 to $25. (See, [...]
Houston Fine Art Fair: Sneak Preview
Houston’s first art fair opens tonight from 6-9 with a $100 a ticket fundraiser benefiting the Core Program. I swung by the George R. Brown Convention Center yesterday as the Houston Fine Art Fair’s participating galleries were unloading and setting up. A lot of manual labor goes into making art and a significant amount goes [...]
Carolyn Sortor’s Big Fat Video Wedding Saturday: Dallas Cremistress Makes a Spectacle of Herself
Dallas video artist and curator Carolyn Sortor is getting married Saturday, and her fiancé Ben’s wedding present to Carolyn is to let her make an art project out of it. A real wedding will take place at the main event, but it’s been designed also to function as art. Guests a/participants are asked to wear [...]
Art Fairs: Sympathy for the Devil You Know
This wasn’t meant to be a column about art fairs—it was meant to be about wealth and conservatism—but art fairs are something I know and wealth and conservatism are major players at fairs. I can’t find the exact quote I’ve been searching for so here’s my wonky memory at work: In either late 2008 or [...]