According to Steve Kidder, president of the museum's board, the museum doubled the reward and made it indefinite because they remain hopeful that the art will make a comeback.
The museum doubled the longstanding reward to $10 million in May to underscore its determination to recover the art and set a "limited time only" offer as an added incentive.
Splurge by staying at the charming Jipek Joli hotel, complete with on-site museum (doubles from £61 B&B), then side-trip to the former fishing port of Moynaq, to witness the Aral Sea Crisis and the resultant desolate ship graveyard.
He followed Philippe de Montebello's 31 year run during which the museum doubled in size.
Plus, the museum doubles as the pier for for the Sailing Vessel Dennis Sullivan, the world's only re-creation of a Great Lakes 19th century three-masted schooner.
American art museums doubled in size in the 25 years to 2007 and attendance grew by 90%, according to a study in 2009 by Janet Meredith, a cultural consultant.
Over 60 years after the foundation of the Arts Council, 50 years after the creation of the RSC, with publicly funded British plays the toast of Broadway, visits to newly free museums doubling in a decade and British concert life the envy of the world, surely we don't have to justify giving public money to the arts?
Puckoon itself was partly filmed in Hollywood - Hollywood, Belfast, that is, the working-village folk-museum doubling as Milligan's divided town, where beer is cheaper in the northern half of the pub and corpses have to have newly issued passports to cross the customs post erected across the newly partitioned graveyard.
Joseph's first solo major museum show, Double Conscience, comprising his double- channel film, m.A.A.d., at the Museum of Contemporary Art, ranked #1 in the "Top 10 Los Angeles Art Shows of 2015" by leading art/culture site HyperAllergic.
