Returning to school this fall, you may have looked up and over at The Art Institute of Chicago’s front facade and noticed that instead of the usual three exhibition banners there is one three-sectioned banner advertising a single exhibition: Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre.
Like a powerful leader of a country, the Museum of Modern Art dominates the art world. I almost feel like MOMA warrants its own regular news column. Since the reopening this past fall, after an $858 million dollar expansion, MOMA is still making headlines.
The greatest problem that Western museums face is that they are, as one of my SAIC professors described, a guilty pleasure. Re-opening this fall is the de Young Museum's snazzy new Swiss-designed building in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.
The National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum
Who can help but let out the slightest of sighs when an ambitious underdog of an institution closes its doors and its most choice pieces, treasured as only favorite children are, are sent to live with their southern relatives, most likely to hereafter be seen as just a few more stars in an already mostly warehoused galaxy.
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