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Judge Shirley Werner Kornreich of the commercial division of the New York State Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in parts of two different lawsuits today, deeming the institution's pay-what-you-wish policy acceptable and fair.
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Last week the Metropolitan Museum of Art sent out a press release about a new lease amendment signed by the museum and the City of New York. The amendment concerns the museum's admission policy, which is currently pay what you wish, and once it was announced, all hell broke loose.
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A few weeks ago, billionaire art collector and philanthropist Eli Broad announced that his upcoming museum in Los Angeles, The Broad, will offer free admission. Earlier this year, the Dallas Museum of Art switched over to free entry, as well as offering a new free membership plan. And now, continuin
Art
As interests shift and funding dwindles, it can be hard to keep a museum open. And after a museum ends its run and its building is shuttered, what happens to the collections?
Art
The fall season is upon us, and art lovers' thoughts turn to museum exhibitions. Here's our very short list of what not to miss.
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Here are five museums that have made it through the obstacles of committees, construction, and community and are (more or less) finally set to open in the imminent future.
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Some museums just aren't meant to be. For reasons of being too complicated, expensive, or just too out there to exist, many architects' plans for museums have been unrealized.
Art
There's something about the cluttered aesthetic of the 19th century that is definitely missed even if, sure, context and history could play second chair to spectacle.
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Is it really that surprising?
Opinion
Earlier this year, speculation swirled around whether the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art would be forced to merge with another institution to survive — the latest episode in an ongoing drama, five years and counting, borne out of the museum's financially precarious situation. But it turns ou
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A topic in art conservation that's often overlooked is: when do we stop preserving an object?
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For more than six months, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco have been in the news nonstop. Robert Flynn Johnson, the museums' curator emeritus, summed it up pretty well when he called the museums' situation “a state of Orwellian dysfunction.” And that's just the news that's been reported.