http://www.metafilter.com/tags/reopening Posts tagged with 'reopening' at MetaFilter. Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:21:06 -0800 Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:21:06 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/37085/Free%2DMoMA <a href="http://www.moma.org/about_moma/manhattan/#a3">MoMA Free Tomorrow for New York MeFi Readers!</a> Well, everyone, actually. The Museum of Modern Art in New York reopens tomorrow and graciously offers a day of free entrance for all. Your chance to avoid the much-criticized $20 admission (views: <a href="http://www.freemoma.org/">con</a>, <a href="http://greg.org/archive/2004/11/10/free_moma_try_fing_expensive_moma.html">pro-fessional</a>, <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/236530p-203055c.html">mayoral</a>). Even good old <a href="http://www.moma.org/visit_moma/admissions.html">free-admission Fridays</a> bear the price tag of aggressive <a href="http://artnet.com/Magazine/news/artnetnews2/artnetnews11-16-04.asp">name-branding</a> [paragraph 6] by an image-crazy donor (it's not charity anymore if it's advertising, folks, much less design-heady classiness-by-association). <a href="http://www.artsjournal.com/man/">Some</a> <a href="http://fromthefloor.blogspot.com/2004/11/additional-moma-notes.html">reports</a> (scroll) from the <a href="http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/finch2/finch11-15-2.asp">press preview</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.37085 Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:21:06 -0800 admission art brokenlink criticism free gallery MoMA museum MuseumOfModernArt museums NewYork NYC reopening sponsorship Joe Hutch http://www.metafilter.com/16771/ <a href="http://www.unesco.org/webworld/alexandria_new/">The Ancient Library Of Alexandria:</a> Its long-awaited re-opening has been <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52028,00.html">postponed</a>, supposedly because of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. So it seems the age-old dream of historians and poets everywhere(<b>Jorge Luís Borges</b> comes to mind)will have to wait a bit longer... I wonder, though, if Egypt's ever-stricter censorship laws and practices will ever be compatible with a true, universal library such as, by most accounts, the original Alexandria Library was.[<small>Via <b>Nutcote</b></small>] tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.16771 Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:21:49 -0800 Alexandria brokenlink Eqypt history Library rebuilt reopening Wired WorldWonder MiguelCardoso