She was a guide at the museum for decades, bringing both knowledge and humor to the task. She died of complications of Covid-19. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “museums”
NY Braces for Second Day of Snow
By Gotham Rex on February 2, 2021
It won’t be nearly as heavy as Monday, but as much as 24 inches is expected to have piled up when the snowfall ends late Tuesday. Source: New York Times
Uncovering a Cemetery's Lost Black History, Stone by Stone
By Gotham Rex on December 22, 2020
Sourland Mountain, a once-isolated region in New Jersey, has long inspired tall tales. Two local women turned “history detectives” have been trying to recover its true story. Source: New York Times
Leslie-Lohman Museum Announces New Director
By Gotham Rex on December 14, 2020
The nonprofit executive Alyssa Nitchun will lead the museum after its last director, Gonzalo Casals, became the Cultural Affairs Commissioner of New York City. Source: New York Times
Museums Are Still Open in New York. Here’s What’s on View (for Now).
By Gotham Rex on December 10, 2020
Sanford Biggers, Félix Fénéon and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s history of itself are some of the exhibitions that remain open to the public. Source: New York Times
Why This Billionaire Will Never Leave New York
By Gotham Rex on November 26, 2020
For the cosmetics mogul and philanthropist Leonard Lauder, the city, with its museums, public transit and parks, is an explorer’s delight. Source: New York Times
Klaudio Rodriguez Named Director for the Bronx Museum of the Arts
By Gotham Rex on November 14, 2020
After two stints as de facto director, Klaudio Rodriguez gets the top job, joining a growing group of Latino leaders of art museums. Source: New York Times
The Word at MoMA Is ‘Rotation, Rotation, Rotation’
By Gotham Rex on November 12, 2020
On Saturday, the museum opens with changes to 20 of its 60 permanent collection galleries. A critic’s guide to the standouts on each floor. Source: New York Times
The Virus Rate in One Area Plummeted. Experts Wonder Why.
By Gotham Rex on November 2, 2020
The sudden drop raises questions about community sensitivities over testing and how useful the data is in determining preventive measures. Source: New York Times
Two Museums Tried to Sell Art. Only One Caught Grief About it.
By Gotham Rex on October 30, 2020
The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum both planned on selling works last Wednesday at auction, but Baltimore paused the sale after much criticism. Source: New York Times
In the Met Costume Institute’s New Show, Memory Maps Fashion’s Future
By Gotham Rex on October 28, 2020
In celebrating the Met’s 150th anniversary, Andrew Bolton of the museum’s Costume Institute could not have designed a better show for this strange, complicated moment. Source: New York Times
K.G.B. Museum Closes; Lipstick Gun and Other Spy Relics Go on Sale
By Gotham Rex on October 28, 2020
A Lithuanian collector is shutting his espionage museum in Manhattan after less than two years, citing the pandemic. Source: New York Times
A First-Time Survey of Asian Art Gets a Second Chance to Dazzle
By Gotham Rex on October 22, 2020
The curators of the Asia Society Triennial planned a really big show. They didn’t plan on reconfiguring it for a city dealing with a pandemic. Source: New York Times
Chinatown Museum Gets $3 Million After Fire Threatens Its Archives
By Gotham Rex on October 9, 2020
The grant is a “game changer” for the Museum of Chinese in America, which was also shut down by the pandemic in March. Source: New York Times
Guggenheim’s Top Curator Is Out as Inquiry Into Basquiat Show Ends
By Gotham Rex on October 8, 2020
An independent investigation found no mistreatment of a Black curator, Chaédria LaBouvier, but the chief curator, Nancy Spector, who is white, is leaving after 34 years. Source: New York Times