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...when a school attempts to liquidate part of its art collection, an option that it appears Brandeis is still considering, museum groups aren't the only bodies paying attention. Three years ago, Fisk University, facing a serious budget shortfall, attempted to sell two paintings from a collection donated to the school in 1949 by the artist Georgia O'Keeffe. A Tennessee chancery court turned down the deal, finding that it violated the terms of O'Keeffe's bequest. When Fisk then negotiated a $30 million deal to share its entire collection with the museum being built in Bentonville...
...TIME?s Top 10 Museum Exhibitions...
...same, museum groups have few means by which to enforce their codes. They used to limit themselves mostly to motions of disapproval when members went astray. But last December, after the National Academy Museum in New York City sold two paintings from its collection to cover a chronic operating deficit, the Association of Art Museum Directors threw the place into art-world purgatory. It forbade its members from lending work to Academy exhibitions, which effectively prevents it from mounting the loan shows that are the lifeblood of the museum world...
...Today, the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum holds the largest collection of what is known in Vietnam as Liberation Art. The biggest buyers - perhaps unsurprisingly - are American Vietnam War veterans seeking the catharsis of art. Mekong Diaries provides just that, and testifies to the ultimate futility of armed conflict. "If we were all artists," writes another featured painter, Nguyen Thu, "there would...
Chairman Mao's birthplace of Shaoshan is a powerful draw for anyone interested in Chinese history. Just don't expect to find too much history there. The town in China's central Hunan province has a museum, library and ersatz 1960s communal farm all dedicated to the founder of the People's Republic. His family home, cattle barn, shed, cattle pen and the family tomb have all been carefully preserved for the millions of tourists, many of them student groups on school-sanctioned "red tours," who visit Shaoshan each year. Newly built shrines - resembling the sort that might have been...