Volume 25, Number 7 · May 4, 1978
Shortchanged at the Met
By David H. Wright
"Treasures of Early Irish Art" January 15, 1978
an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 15, 1977 to
Treasures of Irish Art, 1500 BC-1500 AD
with essays by G. Frank Mitchell, by Peter Harbison, by Liam de Paor, by Máire de Paor, by Roger A. Stalley
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 221 pp., $6.95 (paper)
"Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art, Third to Seventh Century" to February 12, 1978
an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 19, 1977
The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds a unique position in American culture. For organizing a great international loan exhibition no other American museum has quite the same influence, no other has a staff with as wide a range of skills. But the Met has corresponding national responsibilities reflected in the public money which supports it, including the indirect support of its tax-exempt status. The Met must answer to all of us. At the same time it is a vast business enterprise. The current operating budget is $32.7 million. In 1977, it cost the museum $12.6 million to sell the public $14.1 million worth of merchandise. The Met plans to build a new five-level museum store by 1979.
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