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Behind the scenes at the modern art museum

08/2023 | 1445 | 165

Pages: 882–889

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Pergam, Elizabeth (Pergam, Elizabeth)

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Museology / Art museums / Architecture / Art education / Arts funding / Museum extensions

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Closed on Mondays: Behind the Scenes at the Museum. By Dinah Casson. 208 pp. incl. 149 col. ills. (Lund Humphries, London, 2020), £35. ISBN 978–1–84822–434–6. | :

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The Art Museum in Modern Times. By Charles Saumarez Smith. 272 pp., incl. 122 col. + b. & w. ills. (Thames & Hudson, London and New York, 2021), £30. ISBN 978–05– 0002243–6 | :

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The Avant-Garde Museum. Edited by Agnieszka Pindera and Jarosław Suchan. 624 pp. incl. 252 col. + 57 b. & w. ills. (Museum Sztuki, Łódź, 2020) £40. ISBN 978–3–96098–947–9. | :

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Under Discussion: The Encyclopedic Museum. Edited by Donatien Grau. 256 pp. (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2021), $35. ISBN 978–1–60606–719–2. | :

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Why the Museum Matters, by Daniel H. Weiss. 224 pp. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2022), $26. ISBN 978–03–0025935–3. | :

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Worlds in a Museum: Exploring Contemporary Museology. Edited by the Louvre Abu Dhabi and École du Louvre. 272 pp. incl. 99 col. ills. (Leuven University Press, Leuven, 2021), £20. ISBN 978–9– 46166–332–0 | :

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1. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2015. (Photograph Ed Lederman).

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2. Glass corridor in the North Wing of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk. (Photograph Kim Hansen).

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3. Proposal for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art expansion by Peter Zumthor. 2019. (Courtesy Atelier Peter Zumthor & Partners; The Boundary)

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4. Seen / Unseen Known / Unknown, by Walter De Maria. 2000. (Bennesse Art Site, Naoshima).

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5. Permanent display of the International collection of Modern Art of the a.r. group at the J. and K. Bartoszewicz Municipal Museum of History and Art. Photograph by Włodzimierz Pfeiffer. 1931. (From J. and K. Bartoszewicz Municipal Museum of History and Art: International Collection of Modern Art / Collection Internationale d’Art Nouveau, Łódź 1932; Archive of the Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź).

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6. Water Court at the Pavilions, Glenstone Museum, Potomac. (Photograph Iwan Baan).

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7. Louvre Abu Dhabi. (Photograph by Roland Halbe).

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8. Daniel Weiss, former President and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2019. (Photograph Mark Abramson).

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9. Burrell Collection, Glasgow. 2022. (Photograph by Hufton + Crow).

Obituary

Duncan Robinson (1943–2022)

05/2023 | 1442 | 165

Pages: 578-580

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Pergam, Elizabeth (Pergam, Elizabeth)

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art literature:

The Burlington Magazine

museums and institutions:

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States / Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Great Britain

museums and institutions:

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Great Britain

subjects:

Robinson, Duncan, Cambridge, Great Britain / Art historians / Museum directors / scholars / British art

Illustrations

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1. Duncan Robinson, by Peter Mennim. 2011. Oil on canvas, 81.3 by 61 cm. (Magdalene College, Cambridge).

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2. Nude in an interior, by Harold Gilman. c.1911. Oil on canvas, 50.5 by 35.4 cm. (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; Bridgeman Images).

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3. A folio from the Macclesfield Psalter, showing a historiated initial containing the Annunciation to the Shepherds. England, c.1330–40. Tempera and gold on vellum, 17 by 6.2 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, MS 1-2005, fol.139v; Bridgeman Images).

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