April 2009
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No Country For Young Men — Back From Philadelphia Antiques Show
When Geo asked me what I thought about the Philadelphia Antiques Show on the free shuttle…
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Newark Museum Celebrates its 100th Anniversary
The Newark Museum will celebrate its 100-hour Centennial Celebration Marathon, a multi-cultural extravaganza offered, round-the-clock, from…
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A Gift to the Nation and a Loss to Pittsburgh
In retrospect, I am sure consensus would be that Mellon made a wise decision. Given the…
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Key Points In The Press Release From The Montlair Art Museum
You can read the Q&A of deaccession plan of Montclair Art Museum (MAM) from the following…
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Laying Off Artwork — On Montclair Art Museum Wholesaling (Or Deaccessioning) Its Permanent Collection
But the news that Montclair Art Museum is going to deaccession 50 artworks from today’s WSJ…
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The Price For Slashing A Painting
Follow up the previous blog “slashing the painting“: Timur Serebrykov, the former security guard at the…
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Bring Back the Antiques
I was searching through a 1937 edition of the New York Times this afternoon when I…
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Andrew Mellon and Duplicity
The plot in Duplicity is not new. Back in Gilded Age, Duveen did that to Andrew…