Footnotes 5.24.2010
- Artist Justin Lowe plans to re-create the CBGB bathroom for a Connecticut Museum.
- Members of the Military are offered free admission into many museums through a new NEA program.
- The Fresno Metropolitan Museum will return 6 Ansel Adams' works to Adams' son rather than sell the works.
- SMU's Meadows Museum learned that three of its well-known works were looted from Jewish families by the Nazis.
- Two Banksy prints were stolen from a London art gallery.
- Jerry Brown has filed a brief in support of Marei Von Saher in the Norton Simon Museum case.
- Marion Manekar analyzes the deaccession debate through Shelly Banjo's recent article in the Wall Street Journal.
- Twin Kouroi statues were apprehended from two Greek farmers, who had attempted to illegally sell the statues for $12million.
- The battle over the Rose Art Museum is heating up, again.
- Does the move of the famous Barnes Collection symbolizes that is wrong with museum's today: "movies, restaurants, classes, gift shops, parties, pop-cultural exhibits, and interactive computers."
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