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A quick round-up of interesting museum news. First, the news outlets are continuing their research into top museum officials’ salaries, this time finding Bloomberg focusing on Ellen Futter, the present of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Despite major cutbacks in endowments, resulting layoffs, and raised ticket prices, Futter reportedly brought in over a million dollars in combined salary, bonuses, and perks. Though they do mention that she also took on a five percent pay cut this year, but we don’t see that really appeasing any readers who will get worked up about how much she’s being paid (is that the point of all these recent pieces?). Second, with museums across the country suffering, the NY Times reports that massive financial institutions like Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase have been putting together their own pre-packaged exhibitions to give to hurting museums, useable for a small fee and with the understanding that the lending company will have its branding everywhere. This has museum people, of course, a little on edge, but surprisingly generally positive about the whole thing, just so long as they have some involvement in getting to finalize how the exhibits function. And last, moving outside, the Metropolitan Museum of Art‘s war on food vendors has kicked up a notch. Just weeks after the high-profile removal of a long-time hot dog cart owner, the Met (via the city) has taken aim on each of the vendors surrounding the building, giving them $1000 tickets for not being in the right areas (too close to the curb or too far from the curb) and the museum saying they’re pushing due to complaints from visitors that “they are finding it increasingly difficult to enter the building and almost impossible to exit at the end of the day.” It also keeps more people eating at the museum’s cafes, but we’re sure the two things aren’t related.

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An unusual show is currently taking place at the Jerwood Space in London: three artists have taken over the gallery and, starting from nothing, have been building an exhibition over the past month. The catalogue for the show, designed by The Partners, is similarly experimental…

Filmmaker Steven Eastwood, sculptor Jock Mooney and painter Mia Taylor are all working at Jerwood in Laboratory, exposing their art practice to visitors. In order to reflect the unpredictable nature of the show The Partners have created a catalogue that also evolves daily, and neatly combines print with digital media.

The catalogue uses content from the Laboratory blog, where the artists, curator, resident writer, photographer and designers all post updates on the exhibition. Each post on the blog is printed out and then added to the catalogue that is on show at the gallery for visitors to read. As each blog post prints out at a different size, no two pages in the catalogue are alike.

This is the second time that The Partners have worked with the Jerwood:  they created a make-it-yourself catalogue for last year’s Jerwood Show, which featured in the CR Annual. Laboratory is on show at the Jerwood Space until Sunday, but the catalogue will continue to be added to in the days following its closure, documenting the artists’ reflections on the experience. Sixty copies of it will then be packaged as a limited edition run, and people will have the opportunity to sign up for a copy via the blog. A film showing the catalogue so far is shown below.

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