February 2006
February 2006archive
Comment: New US museums pit donors against the public
An increasing number of museums are being built as speculative investments designed to attract incompatible currencies—collections and crowds
February 2006archive
Louvre gets a taste of US sponsorship as Atlanta's High Museum pays $10m to borrow works by Raphael, Rembrandt and Velázquez
The money will restore the French museum's 18th-century decorative art galleries and the collaboration seeks to improve US-French relations in the wake of the Iraq War