Not to be MAN-centric, but given all the bitching I’ve done about the De Young lately, I feel I need to second Tyler Green’s dissatisfaction with the De Young as an AEG King Tut venue. It’s bad enough that this turd/scam fell on LACMA, but the De Young, too? In my two visits to the De Young, I’ve left feeling that the museum is just slugging along, regardless of their fancy pants new building. Is the secret goal of the re-openend De Young to lower my expectations and then lower them again, as some kind of conceptual curatorial project?
Green says it better than I can (emphasis mine) -
The addition of the Tut $how to FAMSF’s exhibition schedule is director John Buchanan’s first major misstep. The de Young is one of America’s best-attended art museums, and the re-opening of the de Young in Golden Gate Park is one of the more substantial triumphs in recent American museumdom. The de Young doesn’t need Tut.
