Reflections on art and architecture by TIME critic Richard Lacayo.
Adventures in Donor Servicing
What's more embarassing than doing a museum show devoted to a private collection that your museum hopes someday to get? Doing the show and not getting the collection. Ask the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
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It's the clearest possible example of why these collector-driven shows are unethical -- and possibly even illegal. (See The Nature Conservancy scandal.)
Still, I can't help but notice: A few weeks ago you pooh-poohed the National Gallery of Art's near-identical enterprise. Surely it's as bad for the NGA to do it as it is for the MFAB? Here's my post, which has a link to yours.
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