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The Met’s Next Blockbuster Is Expected to Stay for 10 Years
8/5/2011
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s flair for the dramatic will not end when the blockbuster Alexander McQueen exhibition closes at midnight on Sunday. Its encore will be theatrical, but in an entirely different way. A… Read More
Populating the Landscape With Idealism
8/5/2011
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — If you stumbled into a meeting of French Impressionist painters in the mid-1870s, you’d get some frosty looks. Edgar Degas would eye your clothes. Paul Cézanne, born suspicious, would scowl. Claude… Read More
The Art and Heart of the Dealer
8/5/2011
Summer is the time when New York’s commercial galleries break away in large numbers from the monthly grind of one- and two-artist exhibitions, almost as if let out of school. Art dealers of every stripe… Read More
MoMA Raises Admission to $25, Paid Director $1.6 Million in 2009, Down 14%
8/1/2011
New York’s Museum of Modern Art, which is raising adult admission 25 percent to $25, paid Director Glenn Lowry $1.6 million in 2009.
Though Lowry took a 14 percent compensation cut, he remained among… Read More
Marvel Triumphs In Copyright Bout With Artist's Heirs
7/29/2011
Law360, New York (July 28, 2011) — A federal judge in New York on Thursday handed Marvel Worldwide Inc. victory in a copyright battle over superheroes including Spider-Man and the Incredible Hulk, rejecting a bid… Read More