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Wet Paint: MoMA Director on Defensive Amid Toxic Leon Black Fallout, Ridgewood Gallerist Takes Manhattan, & More Art-World Gossip What gallerist-actress couple was dining at a hip NoHo spot? What a-lister jetted to Brussels for a museum show? Read on for answers. Glenn Lowry, director of MoMA. (Photo by John Lamparski/WireImage) Every week, Artnet News brings you Wet Paint, a gossip column of original scoops reported and written by Nate Freeman. If you have a tip, email Nate at [email protected]
Museum of Modern Art reached a fever pitch, and since then, the museum’s leadership has struggled to handle the situation. At first, the board dragged its feet on whether to let Black retain his grip on the chairmanship or leave amid scandal. (In case you missed it, the scandal is that Black, the billionaire financier, gave hundreds of millions of dollars to sex offender ....
The Met is selling art to survive the pandemic. Critics say it s a dangerous precedent. Peggy McGlone and Sebastian Smee, The Washington Post March 8, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail People sit on the steps during the public reopening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, New York on Aug. 30, 2020.Photo by Jeenah Moon for The Washington Post. The Metropolitan Museum of Art approved a policy last week that allows proceeds from the sale of works from its collection to be used for salaries and overhead costs associated with the collection s care. The move follows similar actions by other museums, including ones in Brooklyn, Baltimore and Chicago, and marks the latest development in a debate that has been roiling the museum field, and has set some of the country s leading museum directors against one another. ....
Academy helped buy its boss a new home. She left in under 6 years. The Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York on Nov. 2, 2019. In an effort to lure a new top leader in 2015, the academy provided its incoming president with a $968,000 bonus to help buy an apartment. Emily Gilbert/The New York Times. by Robin Pogrebin (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- One of the perks of leading premier cultural institutions, besides the substantial salaries, is the use of elegant apartments, which are often owned by arts organizations and passed from one top executive to the next. But the Brooklyn Academy of Music took it a step further in 2015 when Katy Clark became its president. The organization gave its new leader nearly half the purchase price of a $1.9 million, three-bedroom prewar home overlooking Prospect Park that she could call her own. ....
The Baltimore Museum Walked Back Plans to Sell Art to Fund Equity Initiatives. Now, It's Raised $1.5 Million the Old-Fashioned Way artnet.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from artnet.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.