All around the globe, financial traders, corporate executives, and consumers are holding back, keeping their wallets closed and sitting on their hands. No one -- as recent economic statistics depressingly show -- is doing much buying. So it comes as rather a shock to find out, as The Art Newspaper just revealed, that Michael Govan, the director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is rushing in where others fear to tread. Govan has commissioned Jeff Koons to make a titanic life-size replica of a locomotive suspended from a crane for LACMA's collection. Price tag: $25 million. The Art Newspaper called it the most expensive commission ever by a museum, and said LACMA has already spent about $1.7 million of the $2 million so far pledged for the piece. I have to wonder about Govan's sanity. MORE >>
The Astonishing Michael Govan
by Judith H. Dobrzynski •
Cross-posted from ArtsJournal.com
https://judithdobrzynski.com/2009/03/the-astonishing-michael-govan
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