Acting with Wisdom

PND - News - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Offers Blueprint for Surviving Economic Uncertainty: "If you cut excessively — and I think I can say this is wisdom for our current situation in our field right now — the public will lose interest in you," - director Neal Benezra, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Museum cannibalism: Pricing out visitors - Modern Art Notes

Tyler Green of Modern Art Notes writes,

"Two of America's most esteemed encyclopedic art museums are looking to raise the cost of admission: The Philadelphia Museum of Art is asking the city of Philadelphia for permission to raise admission fees an unannounced amount. And yesterday the Art Institute of Chicago received city permission to raise the cost of admission 50 percent, to $18. The AIC is also raising admissions for students and seniors by 71 percent.

Just as young people, the middle-class and the less fortunate can least afford access to the great collections in Philadelphia and Chicago, their museums are making it harder for people to visit."

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Museums Year End Review

Jeffry Cudlin writes a year end review on the state of Washington, DC museums in the Washington City Paper.

"The state of D.C.’s art museums at the end of 2008 presents a quandary not unlike the one currently on everyone’s mind in the financial sector: Should troubled institutions be rescued or allowed to fail?"