Archive for March, 2007

Buffalo’s Defeated Art Lovers May Still Spark a Revolution By TOM L. FREUDENHEIM

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

artemis.jpgWall Street Journal, March 20, 2007

 Mr. Freudenheim, a former art museum director, served as the assistant secretary for museums at the Smithsonian Institution.

Officials of the Albright-Knox may have won the battle, but the community outrage triggered by their brazen disregard for the museum’s riches ought to serve as a warning to museum directors and trustees across the country: They can’t have it both ways — expecting public support while arrogantly asserting that the public be damned. This storm in Buffalo might be just the beginning of a revolution in which the public begins to reclaim its rights to public institutions and demands an accountability that museum directors and trustees will ignore at their peril.

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Hey, Art Keepers and Others: From Tom Freudenheim

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Some additional thoughts, aside from wanting to congratulate you and your friends on having fought an historic battle…..

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– And Blov, wait til you see the piece I have in the WSJ tomorrow morning (day of first sale).

Cheers,
tom

 

  

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