Where Old Recordings Gain New Life

“[I]nside an oak-paneled studio on West 44th Street in Manhattan … a small team from Sony Music Entertainment performs the divine digital act of preserving the company’s archives,” digging “into a storehouse of recordings, from Sousa and Caruso to Dylan and Miles Davis, protecting the unique and the endangered from the erosions of the past.”

The Cautionary Tale Of Seattle Art Museum’s WaMu Deal

When the Seattle Art Museum “opened a glistening glass-and- metal-paneled, $86 million addition in January 2007,” it couldn’t have foreseen the demise of its partner in the expansion, Washington Mutual. In retrospect, compromises it made to accommodate the doomed lender offer lessons in expansion for the Museum of Modern Art and other institutions.