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Pulling Back at the Parrish

August 14, 2009 by Marion Maneker

Parrish MuseumEveryone is scaling back these days. Bloomberg tells us about the paltry gift bags at the Parrish benefit this year:

Guests at the Parrish Art Museum’s 2005 summer gala received a limited-edition bag from Coach Inc. This year, Kelsey Grammer, Joel Grey and some 500 other attendees got a nylon bag, a journal and a cookbook. Even the bottles of Estee Lauder perfume and Hampton & Co. neckties left on diners’ chairs couldn’t lift the cloud of the gala’s 25 percent budget cut and the failure to attract a corporate sponsor.

“It’s clearly an indication of the correction in the economy,” said Terrie Sultan, the Southampton, New York-based museum’s director.

The New York Times looks at the scaled down design for the new museum:

It was hard to get excited three years ago when the Parrish Art Museum unveiled its plan to build a lavish new home in a meadow in Water Mill, part of the town of Southampton, N.Y. The problem was not with the architecture. The design, a villagelike cluster of pavilions by the Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron, was perfectly suited to its pastoral setting. Its interlocking galleries made an engaging statement about the bonds among viewer, artist and the art-making process. […] The new design, budgeted at less than a third of the original $80 million, will be a perfectly nice place to view art — or host a party. Its handsome profile — a long, narrow bar under a corrugated metal roof — has a serene, low-key quality that is a far cry from the ostentatious mansions that defined the Hamptons of the last decade. Yet the design is also a major step down in architectural ambition. And it suggests the possibility of a worrying new development in our time of financial insecurity. It is a creeping conservatism — and aversion to risk — that leaves little room for creative invention.

When Creativity Dminishes Along with the Cash (New York Times)

Post-Lehman Galas Give No Tiffany as Gift Bags Shrink (Bloomberg)

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