Courting the Contemporary

Art-Historical Museums

Follow the Money

© Deborah Feller

Figure 1. Fukami Sueharu, Upright (2012, pressure-slip-cast porcelain

with pale-blue glaze, granite base). The Metropolitan Museum of Art,

New York. Photo © Deborah Feller.

Figure 2. Kōhei Nawa, PixCell-Deer#24 (2011, mixed media,

taxidermied deer with artificial crystal glass). The Metropolitan

Museum of Art. Photo © Deborah Feller

Figure 3: Cover page, The Morgan

Calendar of Events Winter & Spring

2016.

Roy Lichtenstein,

Entablature (1974, oil,

Magna, sand, Magna

medium, aluminum

powder).

and

Antonio Canova,

Naiad (modeled 1815-

17; carved 1820-23,

marble).

Figure 4: National Gallery of Art, Washington,

DC. Photo © Deborah Feller.

Figure 5: Philadelphia Museum of Art webpage, "Stay

Connected."

Figure 6: The Metropolitan Museum of Art webpage,

"Visit."

Figure 7: The Met Breuer, prior to its opening in March 2016.

Figure 8: Crystal Bridges Museum, aerial view.

Figure 9: Chris Ofili, The Holy Virgin Mary (1996, paper collage,

oil paint, glitter, polyester resin, map pins, elephant dung on linen,

95.98 in. x 72 in. [243.8 x 182.9 cm]). Private collection.

Figure 10: Robert Mapplethorpe, Bob Love (1979,

gelatin silver print on paper, 20 in. x 15.98 in. [50.80 x

40.60 cm]). National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh.

Figure 11: Amadeo Modigliani, Recumbent Nude (1917-18, oil on canvas, 24 in.

x 36 in. [60 x 92 cm]). Private collection.

Figure 12: Janine Antoni, Lick and Lather (1993-94, 7 chocolate and 7 soap on 14 pedestals, 24 in. x 16 in.

x 13 in. [60.96 x 40.64 x 33.02 cm]). National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Figure 13: New (right) and

old (above) logos for The

Metropolitan Museum of

Art.

Figure 14: Maria Hassabi's

Plastic, performed at the Museum

of Modern Art, February 21-

March 20, 2016.

Figure 15: Monica Bill Barnes and

Company's The Museum Workout, held

at The Metropolitan Museum of Art,

January and February 2017.

Figure 16: Description of

MetFridays from website. The

Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Figure 17: Great Hall Balcony

Bar, from website. The

Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Figure 18: Boston Loves Impressionism, crowdsourced exhibit at the

Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Figure 19: View of Chinese gallery with clothed manikin at

China: Through the Looking Glass. (2015) The Metropolitan

Museum of Art.

Figure 20: Top ten art museums

measured by attendance figures.

The ArtNewspaper. (2015)

Figure 21: "...you've always had the power." Glinda to Dorothy in The

Wizard of Oz. (1939)