  urlLink The New York Times > Arts > Art & Design > New York's Bizarre Museum Moment : "...The Whitney — oh, the poor, perennially insecure Whitney, which can never get its act straight — is going through another of its periodic upheavals. Its last director was pushed out, a new one was hired, the old staff gracelessly purged or induced to quit, yet another curatorial crew brought in. The Whitney has become like Stalin's politburo. The only long-term survivors are the people everybody in the art world knows really need to go: the trustees.
Cash short as always and feeling inadequately loved by the Manhattan art world, the Brooklyn Museum seems virtually to have said to hell with it all. Raising a fortune for a glitzy new facade, it has at the same time been shopping or thinking of shopping parts of its great collection, renting exhibitions of 'Star Wars' costumes and cheapening its venerable permanent displays, all in the name of community outreach..." 
