Actually, it’s been only seven months…but so many memorable moments! The post attracting the most hits was: Who Should Succeed Philippe at the Met? I guess my readers include a multitude of Metropolitan Museumologists.
More surprisingly (and to my chagrin), the post with the longest legs—continuing to be hit by many new readers long after it was published—was the one expounding upon the sexual violation of Minnie Mouse.
That’s because those lonely people Googling “Minnie Mouse porn” (and you’d be surprised and alarmed at how many do!) get this as the third item on the first page of results. What have I done?
On a more constructive note, here (in chronological order) is a selective list of CultureGrrl’s Memorable Moments, for those of you who haven’t been obsessively clicking me all year long:
Rethinking Antiquities
What’s Not to Like About Mega-MoMA (Part I and Part II)
Rethinking Antiquities (again)
Where in the World is the Guggenheim?
The Art Market is Not the Stock Market
Rooting Out Loot
Restitution Resolutions—Cashing in on Artistic Assets
AAMD: A Toothless Watchdog
Architecture vs. Art: When Form Ignores Function
Dubious Duccio?
Verklempt Over Klimt
Museum Collections: Curatorial Privilege and the Public Interest
Attracting and Keeping New Audiences (Or Not)
Latest Getty Shockers: Time to Come Clean and Clean House
The Getty Report: Clean Sweep or Whitewash?
What’s Missing from the Met? Tinterow Exposes the Gaps
Lamentable 2006 Artworld Developments—Part I: Rent-a-Show
(COMING NEXT WEEK: LAMENTABLE DEVELOPMENTS, PART II: THE HEGEMONY OF MONEY-NO-OBJECT COLLECTORS)
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