“[Franklin Sirmans] had just started his job as director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami at a time when the institution had committed to increasing its private contributions and art collection in a city without a tradition of cultural philanthropy – and with a benefactor who alienated the potential donor base by having the new building named after himself.”

Attendance in the first few months is expected to top 200,000 by the end of 2015. “Were the crowds to continue at that rate indefinitely, the museum’s annual attendance would be something like 800,000. No one expects that, of course—the Broad is still benefiting from new-museum buzz.”

“What people are really getting away from is a title like ‘Treasures of . . .’ or ‘Masterpieces from . . .’” Arnold Lehman says that there was a time when “every museum had a title like that, or else it was ‘The Golden Age of . . .’ And those have gone by the boards.”

“Jeff Koons, a US pop artist whose works can fetch millions, is facing allegations he used a New York photographer’s commercial photo” – in an ad for Gordon’s Gin – “from the 1980s in a painting without permission or compensation, according to a lawsuit filed Monday.”

“Historic England is launching a campaign to raise awareness of how much [postwar] art is being lost, whether metal sculptures being stolen and sold for scrap or architectural friezes being deliberately ripped down by developers.”