Washington’s Hirshhorn Museum has been proposing an addition by artist Douglas Aitken. The “work” would do double duty as art and a bookstore which has some tongues clucking across the internet. Here’s the LA Times‘s Christopher Knight:
The precedent is unmentioned in the Washington Post story, but that’s the year the little Hudson River Museum commissioned artist Red Grooms to design its bookstore as a collection purchase. The project was even partly paid for with an acquisitions grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.Continue Reading