MoMA has had a Director’s account on YouTube for some while now. On its site it shares a video of a conversation between curator Joachim Pissarro and a group of teens as part of Red Studio, MoMA’s site for teens. It’s not so clear if Pissarro’s approach is very fruitful. Another question that arises: who is the target group of this video?
Art-loving parents around the US are encouraging their children to build their own art collections. Here’s a peek at the artworks owned by 9-year-old Dakota King from Portland (Photo: Michael Rubenstein)
Encouraged by wealthy, art-loving parents, children are collecting Warhols and even Rembrandts. A few grade-schoolers are even loaning works to major museums, including Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts, a coup for a collector of any age. Kelly Crow on their kid-centered tastes, ‘art allowances’ and why auction paddles aren’t toys.
Curator of the National Museum of Iran (NMI), Mohammadreza Kargar described the holding of concerts in Tehran’s palace museums to be a source of damage to the historical monuments.
A metropolis the size of Tehran needs to have several specialized venues for the holding of concerts and currently the only permanent place which the city possesses is the Vahdat Hall, he told the Persian service of ISNA.
According to Kargar, palace museums are not obliged to hold concerts on their premises.
The Iranian band “Shams” accompanied by several dervishes from Konya gave performances at the Sadabad Palace last month.
“The presence of a great number of people in one place will inevitably cause damage to a property, and probably only the open-air areas of these sites should be used for summer performances in order to keep such damage to a minimum,” he added.
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