Mohammed’s Radio Silence
In a story titled “Jihad Jitters” today, The New York Post reports that the Metropolitan Museum of Art is likely to keep artwork that it owns depicting the Islamic Prophet Mohammed locked in its capacious basement when its new Islamic galleries open next year. This would be only the latest of many attempts by the […]
All the News That’s Fit to Paper Over
It took two members of the eminent art journalism squad at the New York Times to write today’s story on the sudden and as-yet-unexplained resignation of Getty museum director Michael Brand. Toward the end, they veer into a brief review of power struggles at museums like the Getty where leadership is split between directors (in […]
Rogues’ Gallery is in Vogue
But alas… it’s in German. Wish I knew what I said.
Reality TV, Russian-Style
RT, the English-language Russian television-and-Internet network, began broadcasting this interview today.