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DR. KEVORKIAN'S FAMILY WANTS HIS PAINTINGS BACK AND THE LAS VEGAS MOB EXPERIENCE FILES FOR CHAPTER 11
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Oct 21 2011
Museum News in Brief
Two pieces of random museum news to share to close out the week
for this writer. First, the organization that you would think had
found the perfect subject matter in the perfect locale with the most
perfect visitor base has run into some trouble. Earlier this week, the
Las Vegas Mob Experience museum filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The
museum had opened just this past spring and apparently had spent too
much constructing its building only to receive too few visitors.
However, despite being in debt to the tune of just shy of $6 million,
the Wall Street Journal reports that a holding corporation may have
stepped in to help buy it out of its troubles.
Elsewhere, and completely unrelated unless you tie the two together by
having museum in common, the Armenian Library and Museum of America in
a suburb of Boston is fighting off the estate of right-to-die activist
Dr. Jack Kevorkian over 17 works of art the recently deceased doctor
had painted. The AP reports that the family wants to include the
pieces in an auction next week of the doctor's effects and estimates
the paintings, many of which "depict death or dying and could provoke
or disturb viewers" are worth somewhere between $2.5 and $3.5 million
(one of the paintings was made "with a pint of his own blood"). The
counter-argument argues that the pieces were donated specifically
to the museum, where they have hung since 1999. The family debates
that, saying Kevorkian only lent the art to the museum temporarily
while he was serving a lengthy prison sentence for assisting in a
patient's suicide.
mediabistro.com
http://www.mediabistro.com/unbeige/museum-news-in-brief-dr-kevorkians-family-wants-his-paintings-back-and-the-las-vegas-mob-experience-files-for-chapter-11_b17591
Oct 21 2011
Museum News in Brief
Two pieces of random museum news to share to close out the week
for this writer. First, the organization that you would think had
found the perfect subject matter in the perfect locale with the most
perfect visitor base has run into some trouble. Earlier this week, the
Las Vegas Mob Experience museum filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The
museum had opened just this past spring and apparently had spent too
much constructing its building only to receive too few visitors.
However, despite being in debt to the tune of just shy of $6 million,
the Wall Street Journal reports that a holding corporation may have
stepped in to help buy it out of its troubles.
Elsewhere, and completely unrelated unless you tie the two together by
having museum in common, the Armenian Library and Museum of America in
a suburb of Boston is fighting off the estate of right-to-die activist
Dr. Jack Kevorkian over 17 works of art the recently deceased doctor
had painted. The AP reports that the family wants to include the
pieces in an auction next week of the doctor's effects and estimates
the paintings, many of which "depict death or dying and could provoke
or disturb viewers" are worth somewhere between $2.5 and $3.5 million
(one of the paintings was made "with a pint of his own blood"). The
counter-argument argues that the pieces were donated specifically
to the museum, where they have hung since 1999. The family debates
that, saying Kevorkian only lent the art to the museum temporarily
while he was serving a lengthy prison sentence for assisting in a
patient's suicide.