Museums

BREAKING NEWS: My blog is apparently the first English language source to report the following story. The renowned Louvre Museum of Paris has cancelled its policy of free admission for artists, teachers, and foreign art students. The annulment went into effect last September after the museum’s price of admission increased by 13%, despite public disapproval. In response, a national –…

To grand applause New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), reopened in midtown Manhattan on November 20th, 2004. Home to works of art like Van Gogh’s Starry Night (1889), Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), Matisse’s Dance (1909), and Frida Kahlo’s Self-portrait with Cropped Hair (1940), MOMA possesses a world class collection like no other. But there is another side to…