Tag: museums
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Another Italian museum facing budget woes
Although it opened only two years ago, with an awarding winning space, the Maxxi National Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome may be closing its doors due to lack of funds. via the Guardian
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Fisk University and the Stieglitz Collection: The final ruling
We’ve had a couple of updates in the last six months, but this week the final decision was announced: The Tennessee Supreme Court denied the application of the Tennessee Attorney General to hear an appeal of the decision of the Court of Appeals to permit Fisk’s Alfred C. Stieglitz Art Collection to be shared with the…
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Museum, facing budget cuts, begins burning works of art
To protest deep cuts in arts funding, Director Antonio Manfredi of the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Naples has begun burning works of art from the museum’s permanent collection. Manfredi plans a systematic destruction — three a week — of the museum’s holdings as its “1,000 artworks are headed for destruction anyway because of the…