Piotrowski took a trip to New York for the money and the art of the Hermitage
Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky in November traveled to New York in search of money and modern art for the museum. On November 23 this tells Bloomberg.
Piotrowski said that the museum is almost no money to buy contemporary art, so the Hermitage Museum is showing works from the collections of other museums and private collections. In search of new opportunities for exhibitions Piotrowski met the famous art dealer and collector Larry Gagosyanom billionaire Ilaem Wade, and made inquiries about what the product can borrow Metropolitan Museum of Art. In addition, he held a dinner with 120 guests at the auction house Christie's to gather for the Hermitage 200 thousand dollars, as well as negotiate with collectors of gifts or long-term projects.
Bloomberg said that the Hermitage is preparing to mark 250-year jubilee in 2014 and completes the restoration of the wing for the art of XX - XXI centuries. "The museum is not the works of American postwar art, - the representative of the Hermitage Fund Chauncey Rodzianko (Chauncie Rodzianko). - I do not mean that in the Hermitage only 100 jobs. Literally, nothing at all."
The Hermitage has held exhibitions of Cy Twombly, Willem de Kooning, and works from the collection of Charles Saatchi. At this time, Piotrowski discuss possible future projects with the painter Anselm Kiefer and the heirs of Sol Le Witt. He described how the museum was forced to abandon the exhibition diamond skull by Damien Hirst: "They asked for such protection, as if it was a golden mask of Tutankhamen. It was too expensive for us."
Piotrowski complained about the hostility of Russian businessmen to charity, noting, however, several recent donations from two to five million dollars (it is known that the donation of five million made, Vladimir Potanin). He noted that the Hermitage can not earn by selling works from his collection, and recalled the events of the early 1930's, when the Soviet government sold the masterpieces of the museum on the West: "21 best exhibit of the National Gallery in Washington once had 21 best exhibit of the Hermitage" .
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