Art Museums reread the lesson with ad – Parool.nl

24-09-14 8:39 pm – Source: Reuters

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The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. © anp

In a full-page ad in the Times Dutch art museums is read Wednesday’s lesson. It states that museums should be independent and should avoid conflicts of interest.

For example, a manager should not work for private parties and a museum would not have to organize exhibition of an artist who also sits on the supervisory board.

The ad is signed by OverHolland Museum, which until 1990 was located in 1987 on Amsterdam’s Museumplein and then continued as a foundation. The museum, an initiative of art collector Jan Christiaan Braun, closed its doors after a conflict with the church.

Braun put on behalf of his museum earlier this month even though a full-page ad in several national newspapers. In it, he accused the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam of interest. The members of a new fund, created to bind individuals to the museum would, according to Braun two hats. For example, some drivers also involved in the commercial art market, or are members of the supervisory board of the museum.

Braun organized after closing his museum several exhibitions, including the Stedelijk. In 2012 he offered the museum 24 drawings by Willem de Kooning, but according to him there was no response. Then he offered them at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. He was 18 years a member of the so-called Trustee Committee (a kind of supervisor) of MoMA.