No Louver Lovers, Museum Tower Pokes Nasher in the Oculi
In a reply to Nasher Director Jeremy Strick’s public calls pressing the “louver solution” to the ongoing Museum Tower glare dispute, Tower spokesperson Rebecca Shaw told CultureGrrl that a “recalibrated oculi treatment” in the Nasher’s roof is a better answer, or, if not that, the Tower’s researchers were looking at “very sophisticated nanotechnology” that might [...]
CultureGrrl Casts Doubts on DMA’s New Free Admission Policy
In a post yesterday in CultureGrrl, blogger Lee Rosenbaum nitpicks the new free-admission policy at the Dallas Museum of Art. In support of her fears that dropping admission charges will be financially unsustainable, she cavils that DMA director Maxwell Anderson’s claim that museums in general derive 4% of their operating income from admission charges is [...]
Culture Grrl Leaks News: Kimbell’s Potts to be New Getty Director
The LA Times Christopher Knight reports that the Getty museum has named former Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth) director Timothy Potts to head the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Potts replaces Michael Brand, who took a new job in Sydney, Australia after yet another round of what the Knight sees as inevitable frictions [...]
Museums feel the lure of the Dark Side: Culture Grrl urges AAMD to crack down on shady practices
More on the Association of Art Museum Directors’ new ethical guidelines in today’s Culture Grrl blog on ArtsJournal. Specifically, Lee Rosenbaum highlights the growing number of “one-sponsor” shows funded and with organizational support from a self-interested supporter (Herman Miller at the AMOA) and the growing acceptance of object-rich institutions charging high fees for loans to [...]
Smithsonian peacemaker
Lee Rosenbaum’s Culturegrrl blog reports that an unnamed conservative congressman went to bat for the Smithsonian’s right to show A Fire in My Belly by David Wojnarowicz, relieving some of the political pressure on the institution from right-wing Republicans hoping to make political hay out of the Smithsonian’s curatorial decisions. Richard Kurin, the Smithsonian’s under [...]