According to Bank of America, there are no museums down here in the Sahara of the Bozart.
Yeah, you might want to mention that this is New England/NY only.
And California and the southeast coast of Florida.
3- CA/FL/DE aren't New England/NY. It's not BofA's fault you live in the backwaters.
6: I'm pretty sure Emerson has demonstrated that Pennsylvania is in the Midwest.
How much are you getting paid for this, Becks, you capitalist tool, you?
What if you just hold all your assets in the form of Bank of America stock?
Are your stock certificates encoded for ATM access?
Wow, I knew I kept that damn card around for something!
I'm pretty sure that $20 at MoMa is a suggested donation.
14 would make this the funniest promotion of all time. Buy our product and get FREE ACCESS to public schools and libraries!
No, MoMa is a real charge. It's the Met that's "whatever you'd like to pay, but we're going to write 'Adult: $20' on the sign in a very non-optional looking font.'"
You sure about that LB? I've seen people in line at the MoMa resolutely push a nickel across the counter and get admission.
I was sure, but if you've seen different I'm wrong. I've been sure and wrong before.
I think LB's right and MoMA's an admission fee, not a donation. The Met is a suggested donation.
Friday nights at MoMA are "pay what you want", IIRC. Could you maybe remember the nickel from then?
But the website hasn't got any indications of optionality. Unlike the Met's website, which does call the admission fee 'recommended'.
http://www.moma.org/visit_moma/admissions.html agrees with LB too. I went and looked because I was a bit shocked at the idea of paying $20!
Also, I read somewhere that "suggested donations" can end up being regressive because rich enwhitled people feel free to just hand them a buck or two while poor and middle-class people are intimidated by the museum experience and feel too embarrassed not to fork over the whole $20.
My impression had been that MoMa kept the "recommended" part WAAAAY low-profile. I could be wrong, though. Maybe the guy I saw paying a nickel knew the teller (though she seemed pretty pissy about the transaction).
22.--I think it's a way of making out-of-towners pay more, without formally discriminating. I go to the Met every month or so...
22 As an enwhitled highschooler, I certainly spent a whole lot of ten cent afternoons in the Met on cold or rainy days.
Guys, I'm running for mayor on a single issue: museums should be free to city residents. MoMA literally just spent one billion dollars on a new building, but they sniff at a pay-what-you-wish policy? They should be fucking ashamed of themselves. There are fantastic sums of money that move through the big New York museums every week, and it's probably 90% tourists. Give the residents a break.
And the new building sucks, too.
Joe D for preznit! I mean "mayrnit"!
I'm really only running for the bribes.
You can get bribes without all the hassle of running for office. I recommend becoming a lobbyist for some enormously corrupt and monopolistic industry and then being appointed by Bush to the oversight agency for said industry. Better hurry, though.
Joe Drymala: He doesn't want Park Avenue millionaires to have to pay to get in at the Met! Support the little man, vote ymereJ rensO: I promise that if elected, I will convert the mansion/co-op apartment of every filthy rich capitalist parasite to a museum and entertainment hall for the working man and the slacker.
rensO: if only tourists could vote in local elections, you'd win in a landslide.
The new building is terrible.
It has an extremely impressive HVAC system, though.
They also got rid of (or stored away) their entire Francis Bacon collection, which was my favorite thing about the old museum.
But there's a drawing and prints room on like the second floor! In a prominent location!
The new building is oppressive. A fucking temple to money and dead artists. And $20 is completely outrageous. I only go when a friend with a Museum Workers' Guild card gets me in for free. (Although I'm going to break down and pay for the Serra show, I think.)
Dead artists? I discovered Julie Mehretu on the ground floor there, between a Monet and a Mondrian, IIRC.
The BoA program seems less extensive than in the past. Last year they had the JFK museum and the children's museum, both missing this year. At least they still have the MFA.
Julie Mehretu
Hey, she's good. Thanks, JM.
Twenty dollars is outrageous. I never have to pay anything, but I'm totally outraged on your behalf.
I've heard tell that it will take Julie Mehretu a decade to fulfill the waiting list for her work.
At the Armory a couple years ago, a gallery was selling engravings (fucking gorgeous) for $8,000; I guess I should have asked whether they were actually available to purchase. I really, really, really coveted them.
Julie Mehretu is good. Dead artists in 38 s/b safe, blue-chip artists and the investment bankers who collect them. We apologize for the error.
Has anyone seen the Dana Schutz show? Would anyone like to next Friday or Saturday afternoon, when I visit?
I'm not sure, 'Smasher. This was the first image I enlarged, and, agh.
Hm, that link didn't work right. Bottom left corner.
I know. But This series was so awesome.
At the Armory a couple years ago, a gallery was selling engravings (fucking gorgeous) for $8,000; I guess I should have asked whether they were actually available to purchase.
Because you had eight grand to spare?
Bank of America is really eager to increase their market share. Yesterday I got a letter from them saying that they had a gun to my mother's head and that they'd kill her if I didn't use the convenience checks they had sent me.
Most of the major British art galleries have free admission. I can only think of a couple that don't. It's a great thing.
51.--No, once I asked the price, I abandoned all interest in the engravings; for some reason, at that fair, I was indulging the fantasy that I could afford to buy art. However, if what 'Smasher says about the waiting list to purchase her work is true, they shouldn't have even been available to purchase.
6: Western Pennsylvania is arguably like the Midwest, but no more so than Upstate New York. Philadelphia is pretty definitively an east coast city.
It's not a question of being "like" the Midwest, it's a question of being in the Midwest. Which depends on how you define the Midwest, geographically. Under an expansive definition, western Penn is in the Midwest. Upstate NY isn't, by any measure.
I had a chance to buy a Goya print for $400 in 1965 or so ($2500 in today's money). It was about 3 square inches.
I also recently had a chance to buy a silver coin minted under Genghis Khan for about $400. I should have bought it.
I had no idea things minted under Ghenghis Khan were supposed to be rare.
Genghis was very seductive and had a whimsical sense of humor.
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Surely Buffalo could be argued to be a Midwestern city, what with being on Lake Erie, and such like. It's at least as midwestern as Pittsburgh.
The same cannot be said for Philadelphia, or really any of eastern or central Pennsylvania.