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.
The Museum of Everyday Life
The New York Times visits the Museum of Everyday Life.
Folk facade
A study for the facade of the Museum of American Folk Art.
Dickinson at the Morgan
I’m Nobody! Who are you? The Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson.
Heads up
Whoever designed the posters and their sequence must have put much thought into — and taken much pleasure from — the work.
Museums, uh-oh
From Sister of the Bride.
Goodbye, “M”
First the Metropolitan Museum of Art ended the use of the “M” admission button, and now it’s doing away with the “M” altogether, a beautiful and art-historical “M.”
At the Museum of the City of New York
After just two visits, the Museum of the City of New York, or the City Museum, has become one of our household’s favorite museums.
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...
Museo Faggiano
I am relieved that our plumber did not unearth centuries of Italian history when he replaced a pipe in our bathroom last fall.
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.”
On joining a museum
“We live at a great distance, and we visit just a few times a year. But as a helpful fellow at the ticket counter pointed out yesterday, just two visits a year would recoup the cost.”
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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.”
Weegee the Famous in Indianapolis
An exhibit of recently discovered photographs
Casinos, museums, and parks
Lumped together in an amendment to the stimulus bill
The Baseball Reliquary
A museum of baseball relics -- Babe Ruth's cigar, Dock Ellis' curlers, and so on.
Looking at Lincoln
The Lincoln Museum in Springfield, IL