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July 16, 2010
Oh no, not budget cuts! The theaters will go dark!
I mean, I sympathize. Museums would always rather mount a traveling show that they didn't have to think of or even produce the catalog for than dig into their vaults and think about what they might bring out to show us. As thought the National Gallery, the Tate, the British Museum, the Wallace (one could go on indefinitely) don't have a lot in the basement.
What brought this to mind was a similar whiny piece in the New York Times last year (sorry, couldn't find it - I thought I'd blogged it but evidently not). Someone from MoMA was saying that it was a great pity but they would just have to do shows of things people hadn't seen lately. Cry me a river. The insurance savings alone will make up for budget cuts, if what I've heard is true.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at July 16, 2010 7:54 AM