Luis Buñuel, MoMA hiree
“When he asked if I was a Communist, I told him I was a Republican, and at the end of the conversation, I found myself working for The Museum of Modern Art.”
Sluggo goes to a museum
I wonder if five might be the requisite number for “some paintings.”
The small museum
Its modesty permits an intimacy of acquaintance that a big-shot museum makes far more difficult.
Folk facade
A study for the facade of the Museum of American Folk Art.
Heads up
Whoever designed the posters and their sequence must have put much thought into — and taken much pleasure from — the work.
The Armory Show
The Art Institute of Chicago has online a virtual trek through the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art, the exhibition known as th...
Artwork labels
At Oscar’s Portrait, an exhibition of artwork labels.
Whitney, yecch
Jeff Koons, yecch.
Getty Publications Virtual Library
Free PDFs!
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The American Folk Art Museum will be demolished after all.
M was for Metropolitan
On Monday, July 1, the Met ends the use of metal admission buttons.
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The American Folk Art Museum, reprieved?
Farewell, 45 West 53rd
“I am reminded of what I have seen in my old Brooklyn neighborhood and my old New Jersey suburb: houses purchased and destroyed so that new owners can build whatever. Intelligent use: not.”
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The Cubies’ A B C.
Treasures of the Bodleian
An online exhibit, an excellent rabbit-hole.
WEAPONS ARE PROHIBITED.
A sign in a museum.
Overheard
“If he hadn’t smoked cigarettes, he would have lived a lot longer.”