After agreeing to give up a painting by Cranach to heirs of the collector it was stolen by the Nazis from, The North Carolina Museum of Art gets a surprise. Rather than selling it on the open market, the heirs sell it back to the museum for a fraction of its value. – Scripps Howard
Tag: 06.03.00
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