Issues and Commentary: Attraction Pricing
Institutions that open their doors free of charge now seem not premonitions of a democratic world to come but relics of a bygone age.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mechanical Glamour
As the Met’s Costume Institute opens an exhibition about the interplay between handmade and mass-produced fashion, Leonardo da Vinci’s sketch for a sequin-making machine evokes a longer historical vie…
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The Met Will Amend Its Admission Policy To Settle Class Action Lawsuit
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that it will be amending its “pay what you wish” admission policy as part of their settlement agreement in the three-year-old class action lawsuit…
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Nina Diefenbach Named Deputy Director for Advancement at the Barnes Foundation
Thom Collins, the executive director and president of the Barnes Foundation, announced today that Nina McNeely Diefenbach has been named deputy director for advancement. Diefenbach comes…
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Morning Links: L.A. Is Not A Creative Paradise Edition
In 2017, the Met will open a Lucio Fontana retrospective in the Marcel Breuer building that formally housed the old Whitney. This will only mark Fontana’s second-ever retrospective in the U.S. [Th…
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Director of the Met Thanks LG Electronics for Lowering Height of New Headquarters
Thomas P. Campbell, the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, released a statement today thanking LG Electronics for its decision to lower the height of its proposed…
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The Thoroughly Modern Met
With the Lauder Collection gift, the Met reframes the Cubist movement for the 21st century
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Elsa Schiaparelli and the Surrealists
A new biography documents the exchange between art and fashion
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