Museums, Art and the Rackets
Against The Current vol. 121
Rabinowitz, Paula
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/141
Date Written: 2006-03-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2006
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13226
In the late 1990s when it appeared that the laws of capitalism had been suspended temporarily and wealth could be accrued purely on speculation, the New York Times began an annual full-section report on museums, those once fusty and staid zones of quiet suddenly become hot public draws. Its 21 April, 1999, issue extols the role museums play in rebuilding urban economies worldwide. The Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, and new wings of the Metropolitan in New York have been instrumental in fostering urban pride and capital flows.
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