It’s not just that those mirrored, carefully lit Infinity Rooms are tricky to put together. There was the matter of carefully training guides and volunteers, crowd control on a scale unprecedented for this museum, and logistics for an all-white room that visitors are meant to cover with colored dots (it has to be white again by the next morning).
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The Flapbooks Of 16th-Century Venice (They Were Oh-So- Naughty)
The city’s ingenious publishers came up with the perfect souvenir for a wealthy tourist to bring home from what was then a famously libertine city.
Asia Week Has Come Around Again, With The Shadow Of Last Year’s Raids (Possibly) Behind It
The show, or festival, has become a sort of “high-culture pub crawl,” though “organizers are still mindful that a year ago, federal officials and the Manhattan district attorney’s office raided several dealers during a crackdown on antiquities smuggling.”
Report: Here’s What The Current $45 Billion Art Market Looks Like
The report paints a picture of “a stable and resilient market, experiencing positive growth.” However, sales are moving away from the auction houses to the private sector, both to private sales by auction houses and to dealers. In 2016, public auction sales of works of art, high-end jewelry, and decorative arts, reached $16.9 billion globally, a drop from $20.8 billion in 2015.
The Sculpture Scavenger Hunt On The Rooftop Of The Metropolitan Museum
The youngest sculptor to take on the terrace of the Met says, “My assumption is they expected me to sort of activate the museum. … One of the first requests I made was I wanted to meet everybody.”
A Show Sounds Tone Deaf – Even Racist – But Learns From Its Mistakes
Maybe calling your group show, composed of almost all white artists, “Show Mein,” and having the promotional material look like Chinese take-out boxes with chopsticks, isn’t quite the right decision – as the Spring/Break Art Show quickly learned.
Downsizing Baby Boomers Are Flooding Museums With Donated Art
In addition to changing how nonprofits deal with donations, “the flood of works that may be coming to institutions around the country in the next decade could broaden the definition of postmodern art.”
Art, Politics And The Met Museum
The timing of Tuesday’s announcement felt pointed, landing, as it did, during the kickoff to a week in which no less than a dozen art fairs open in New York City, trailing the power players of the international art world in their wake. (It’s known to insiders as “Armory Week,” not for the A.D.A.A.’s event at the actual Armory but for another fair, held at the western edge of Manhattan, on Piers 92 and 94, and named after the 1913 Armory Show, which famously scandalized viewers with Marcel Duchamp’s painting “Nude Descending a Staircase.”)
Report: Five Things You Should Know About Classical Music Audiences
The Audience Agency’s new report on national classical music audiences is based on an analysis of data from Audience Finder, the national cultural audience insight programme, covering classical music events from 2014 to 2016.
Why The Met Museum Should Appoint A Female Director
Liza Oliver, an assistant professor at Wellesley: “As a woman who works at a leading liberal arts college driven by female leadership broadly and by African-American women particularly, I can attest that there is no shortage of women who would be up for the task of director from both within and beyond the Met’s walls.”