MUSEUMS GRAPPLE WITH FUNDING ETHICS

Ever since last year’s revelations about funding for the Brooklyn Museum’s “Sensation” show, museums have been thinking hard about how they fund exhibitions. Last week, New York’s Metropolitan Museum canceled a show of Coco Chanel’s work. “I need to be able to assure people that what they see on the walls is not inflected by the money we receive to do an exhibition,” Met director Philippe de Montebello told The New York Times. “And if I can’t make that assurance, I’m not doing it.” – New Jersey Online