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...complaint filed November 3, members of the community group Cambridge Citizens for Liveable Neighborhoods (CCLN) are charging that the garage was built in violation of the provisions of the 1975 Federal Clean Air Act. The act severely restricts the development of commercial parking spaces in the Boston metropolitan area...
...VISION: PHOTOGRAPHY BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. This smartly conceived show, which introduces the Metropolitan's new Ford Motor Company Collection of 20th century photographs, highlights the camera's courtship of pure form. Through...
...turned to chicken feed by art inflation. "There are many areas where museums can no longer buy," says James Wood, director of the Art Institute of Chicago. "It's bad for the museums, but it goes beyond that. It's bad for the country." The symbol of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's plight is an annual booklet that used to be titled Notable Acquisitions. In 1986 it was renamed Recent Acquisitions because, as the museum's director Philippe de Montebello wrote, the rise in art prices "has limited the quantity and quality of acquisitions to the point where...
...insurance? When the Metropolitan Museum of Art's show "Van Gogh at Arles" was being planned in the early '80s, it was assigned a global value for insurance of about $1 billion. Today it would be $5 billion, and the show could never be done. In the wake of Irises, every Van Gogh owner wants to believe his painting is worth $50 million and will not let it off the wall if insured for less. Even there, the problem is compounded by the auction houses: when consulted on insurance values or by the IRS, they tend to stick the maximum...
Before coming to the University, Bowron served as director of the North Carolina Museum of Art and worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Walters Art Gallery inBaltimore and the Nelson Atkins Museum in KansasCity...