It can take a museum more than a year to auction a car, and many donors don't want to wait that long for a write-off, Ms. Brinkman said, adding: "We saw donations drop off in that category.
Through Feb. 14 "The Game Show" doesn't do complete justice to its theme -- it would take a museum show to do that -- but it does get you thinking about the kinds of relationships there are between games and art.
Richard Kurin, head of the search committee and under secretary for history, art and culture at the Smithsonian, said Mr. Gray "took a museum of the American West, including the collections of Gene Autry, and transformed it into an institution representing a broader, inclusive and complicated vision of the American West".
What happens when a surreal on-screen world takes a museum form?
"We're taking a European approach," a museum staff member said, reassuring me that there is a pump and filter system, and a mandatory shower.
First, the client donates, say, $5 million of highly appreciated stock to a museum, taking a full $5 million deduction.
But suddenly, he wasn't a kid we were taking to a museum — unless it was in Cooperstown.
Mr. Thompson will be taking over a museum that faces many of the same identity issues as the one he is leaving.
But it still takes "a brave museum" to give artists carte blanche on a show, particularly one headlining a renovation, said Massimiliano Gioni, artistic director of the Nicola Trussardi Foundation in Milan and head of special exhibitions at the New Museum.
WHAT does it take to make a museum great?
