Blockbuster gallery shows, such as a new Michael Jackson exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery, can’t rescue struggling museums as they don’t encourage regular attendance and are increasingly expensive to put on, warns Tim Schneider.
On Tuesday, my colleague Javier Pes reported that London’s National Portrait Gallery will be forced to present its upcoming blockbuster exhibition, “Michael Jackson: On the Wall,” without Jeff Koons’s porcelain-and-gold paean Michael Jackson and Bubbles (1988). All four editions of the sculpture “were either already committed for display or deemed too fragile to travel,” per an NPG spokesperson.
But I’m less concerned about any damag... Keep reading on artnet
On Tuesday, my colleague Javier Pes reported that London’s National Portrait Gallery will be forced to present its upcoming blockbuster exhibition, “Michael Jackson: On the Wall,” without Jeff Koons’s porcelain-and-gold paean Michael Jackson and Bubbles (1988). All four editions of the sculpture “were either already committed for display or deemed too fragile to travel,” per an NPG spokesperson.
But I’m less concerned about any damag... Keep reading on artnet