On Sat, 30 Jul 1994 14:01:44 -0400, Robbin Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >On another note: The ever-trendy Whitney Museum of American >Art now has a few pictures up in the San Jose Mercury News >section of America Online. This is the first example of a museum working >with a commercial online newspaper that I know of and I think it's >worth keeping an eye on. > >As to why the Whitney is in San Jose, they've made a deal >with the SJ Museum of Art to provide work for four >18-month exhibitions. The pix are online as part of >an article on the opening of the first. Another >forward-looking move by the Whitney: sharing collections. ROBBIN, and list: For another take on the Whitney/San Jose "deal" see last Thursday's (21 July) _WSJ_: Lee Rosenbaum, "Museums Hire Out Their Collections"--Interesting questions are raised, some that should be answered before any of us attempt large scale collection sharing programs. Best, JIM