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Philippe Vergne Resigns as Director of Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles

June 1, 2018

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NY Times - After four years in the job and two months of intense speculation about his employment status, Philippe Vergne has confirmed that he is leaving his post as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art...

Visitors look at a Marble statue of a Kouros, representing the Greek physical ideal during the Archaic period (700-480 BC), at the Getty Villa Museum in Malibu, California on April 18, 2011. The Getty Villa exhibits classical antiquities collection of Greek, Roman and Etruscan art. The Villa is modeled after a Roman country house buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD. AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYS (Photo credit should read GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images)

How Museums Handle Forgeries in Their Collections

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May 12, 2018

Art and Culture, Museum News, Museums, Trending

Artsy - Art forgeries are surprisingly common, to the point that scandals hit the news regularly. No one is safe from deception—forgers can be skilled enough to dupe experts at some of the world’s most prestigi...

House Bill Proposes National Museum Devoted to Women’s History

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April 10, 2018

Museums, Trending

Hyperallergic - The Smithsonian recently launched the American Women’s History Initiative — but a House bill goes further, proposing the creation of a national museum devoted to women’s history. - read more...

A Snowstorm Paralyzed Paris, But Its Museums Look Lovely

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February 13, 2018

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Hyperallergic - Earlier this week, Paris all but shut down after a storm dumped up to 20 centimeters (almost eight inches) of snow on the French capital Tuesday night. Though most museums remained open, the Ei...

9 of the World’s Weirdest Museums

Artery

December 30, 2017

Art and Culture, Museums

Artsy - One might think that a museum devoted to hunting and nature housed in an 18th-century aristocratic residence on Paris’s Right Bank would be stuffy and rather ethically contentious. In the case of the Mu...

MoMA Upends Its Collection to Celebrate Late Careers

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December 29, 2017

Art and Culture, Museum News, Museums

MoMA - Interestingly, as the aura and familiarity of MoMA-anointed landmarks ebbs and flows, you may find yourself on your own, responding in less filtered ways to what you see. This should occur more frequentl...

Why the Getty Center’s Art Stayed Put as Fires Raged Nearby

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December 16, 2017

Art and Society, Museum News, Museums

The New York Times - Visitors come to the Getty Center in Los Angeles to see Vincent van Gogh’s irises and other great works. What they don’t see is the reason that these masterpieces could stay put while thous...

Stephen Shore at MoMA

Artery

December 13, 2017

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By Sara Blazej Artery Exclusive The expansive career of photographer Stephen Shore, which began at an early age and was cast in good luck and youthful hubris from the start, is laid out in great detail acros...

David Hockney’s Life in Painting: Spare, Exuberant, Full

Artery

November 29, 2017

Museums

The New York Times - Give it up for David Hockney, one of painting’s elder statesmen, and for his crystalline retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which proceeds in a string of perfectly curated mi...

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Centre Pompidou broke even on Koons retrospective, Paris court decision reveals

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May 31, 2017

Art and Culture, Museums

The Art Newspaper - The Centre Pompidou’s Jeff Koons retrospective in 2014-15 was the most attended exhibition of a living artist in the museum’s history, bringing in 650,045 visitors, which could have resulted...