They can spend millions on a canvas, but they can’t keep the urinals fixed; why is that? The food in the café is good
Tag: art museums
25 Year Anniversary of Rembrandt Theft
In Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, lies an empty frame that once displayed the famous Rembrandt “Storm on the Sea of Galilee”. This year
Art Institute of Chicago – Contemporary Wing
The first two floors of contemporary wing are worthless, usual modern crap, go straight to 3rd floor for surrealists, including Albert Bloch’s Three Pierrots
Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago
This museum is in a good location, just off magnificent mile near the John Hancock building. Otherwise, terrible; usual identity, gender politics. It’s amusing
MOMA (Museum of Modern Art in New York)
Why does MOMA exist? Hard to tell, because it offers nothing more than the clichéd version of what “modern” art was thought to be
Van Gogh – Then and Now
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Berlin
What makes for a cool city? Cool people doing creative work. Berlin right now is in the midst of a tech start up boom,
Bill Gates, Microsoft Co-Founder, on giving money to art museums
Quoting from an argument advanced by moral philosopher Peter Singer, Gates questions why anyone would donate money to build a new wing for a