admission policies
Despite New Admission Fee, Met Museum Sets Attendance Record
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The Met’s recent increase in admission fee doesn’t appear to be hurting its visitor numbers…yet.
Nonprofit News
Sunsetting at the Lichtenstein Foundation: Gifts to the World!
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Roy Lichtenstein Foundation leaders are making a bold statement by donating hundreds of the Pop artist’s works and hundreds of thousands of archival documents, staying true to their mission even as they begin to talk about an eventual sunset.
art museums
Not Feeling the Board: A Little Berkshire Backstory
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It is to be expected that in a time of radical change in an institution, some disagreements would exist on the board even to the point of sparking resignations. A closer peek at what the process felt like at the Berkshire Museum may help us all think about how to approach the big questions in front of our own boards.
Nonprofit News
According to Whom? The High-End Art World Awkwardly Discovers Black Artists
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New York’s art auction scene congratulates itself on having sold more work by Black artists, but inclusion means much more.
European Union
No Man Is an Island, and More Creative Ideas to Fight Nationalism
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Can artists rebrand the troubled European Union?
Nonprofit Management
Seattle, UNESCO City of Literature: See Nonprofits Reflect the Fields They Cover
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Seattle recently became one of two US cities designated by the UN as a “City of Literature.” But the story of how it got there makes a fine drama itself.
Philanthropy
Philanthropy, Democracy, and the Weird Civic Playground of Nonprofit Museums
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The pernicious effects of the nation’s growing inequality undermine democratic practices not only in government, but within the nonprofit sector, such as among museums.
Nonprofit News
New Arts Center Aims for Contemporary-Type Nonprofit Business Model
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In Worcester, Massachusetts, a vacant building is being reimagined as an arts center with the potential to drive economic development and become largely self-sustaining.
Podcasts
Charity Art Auctions: What’s in It for Artists?
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Have you ever bought a work of art at a charity auction? It turns out that the artists who donate their works can only deduct their direct costs from their taxes. Moreover, charity art sales may even depress the prices artists fetch at gallery sales. Amy Costello, in a podcast, explores these and other issues with artists, an art industry critic, and a nonprofit director.
Nonprofit Management
Baltimore Museum Sells Art by White Men to Finance More Diverse Holdings
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For a change, this news about a museum’s plans for deaccessioning work by important artists isn’t stirring a controversy. Why is that?