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Fallingwater, the Survivor's Staircase at the 911 Museum and lots more, too. What a legacy!
Robert Silman, Engineer Who Saved Fallingwater, Dies at 83
nytimes.com
He was involved in many major restoration and salvation projects, including Carnegie Hall, the Ellis Island museum and the World Trade Center staircase.We should be doing better than this.
Nonprofit Workplace Culture: Why It Matters So Much to Us
nonprofitquarterly.org
It is unreasonable to expect any organization to function perfectly, but there is an extra measure of unhappy cognitive dissonance involved when there’s an essential contradiction between a nonprofi...The story of the Newseum gift shop "fake news" shirts continues.
Newseum Says It Made a Mistake and Pulls ‘Fake News’ Shirts
nytimes.com
“Journalists are not the enemy of the people,” the Washington museum dedicated to celebrating the First Amendment said on Saturday.Here's a museum gift shop that seems to have gone off the deep end.
The Newseum is selling ‘fake news’ shirts. Journalists are not amused.
washingtonpost.com
Under the auspices of free speech, the Newseum sells garments with a phrase the president popularized. Journalists took it as an affront.Deaccessioning is always a good topic in class!
The Deaccessioning Debate in Museums
hyperallergic.com
Deaccessioning — the permanent removal of objects and art from a museum's collection — has been at the forefront of many discussions around public and private collections of late.