Slog - Comments on The Real Money Issue http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/the_real_money_issue While Modern Art Notes worried over LA MOCA's announcement/decision to place a Louis Vuitton boutique in the center of Takashi Murakami's retrospective at the museum, and LAT critic Christopher Knight, known for getting tough on institutions, praised the cleverness of the store in art-historical terms, Jori Finkel of the New York Times was thinking bigger. She was wondering why the exhibition itself (at a nonprofit museum) was funded by three powerful private dealers who sell Murakami's art out in the real world—for real prices, not the chump change of handbags. And why one of the dealers, Blum & Poe, chartered... Copyright 2008 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:21:27 -0800 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:59:09 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Tyler Green I disagree with plenty here, but I'll toss in just one note: I don't think it's any one writer's responsibility to call out every ethical infraction in American museumdom. I don't try, I don't think I know anyone who does. I'm ecstatic to see others take up institution-focused journalism and institutional critique. (It's been a yawning gap in American cultural journalism for years now.) And like I said yesterday on MAN: Bravo to Jori for raising this one.

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