Christopher Knight, art critic for the LA Times, responds to Online Now: My WSJ Piece on the Future of Art Bibliography:
The Getty announced in April 2009 that its role as sole funder of the
BHA would end in a year and began to search for help. Thomas Gaehtgens,
the director of the Getty Research Institute, recently told the Los
Angeles Times that attempts to find assistance to continue the project
have been unsuccessful, in part because no one else has wants to commit
the resources required by the traditional process of having editors
summarize mountains of material.Grasshopper, meet ant.
Commenters often append adjectives, as you did, in your article for the Wall Street Journal, like
“superabundant” to statements of the Getty’s $4.5-billion endowment.
But together the endowments at just the Metropolitan Museum and MOMA in
New York exceed $2 billion. I daresay both, with their own celebrated
art libraries, are engaged in research in the history of art.
“Superabundant” and its kin are typically trotted out just before
asking (insisting?) that the Getty fork over the cash, while others sit
on their hands.RT: Get over it.
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