Displaying the chutzpah of a late-night real estate infomercial, the Met is now offering a Groupon deal on admission — you can now pay just $18 for their free admission!
Groupon Wants To Charge You $18 To Visit The Met, Which Is Free.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently argued it was granted permission to solicit fees “after the museum received approval from New York City’s Administrator of Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Affairs more than four decades ago,” Director and CEO Thomas P. Campbell (2010 salary and benefits: $1.04 million) wrote in a public letter on April 4. But the New York Post obtained all the documents governing the admissions policy between the Met and the city going back over 100 years, to determine if that document actually exists. It does not.
via Met Museum of Art misleading patrons about “suggested” entry fees, documents indicate – NYPOST.com.
And see our earlier article.
The Beervana blog has written up some very interesting research by Dirk Brockmann into America’s cultural boundaries — and it involves the WheresGeorge game.
Beervana: Where America’s Cultural (and beer?) Boundaries Lie.
“The former finance boss of Lehman Brothers has revealed she deeply regrets the sacrifices she made for her job and told working women: ‘It’s not worth it’.”
I bring this up, not because I think women who want it all are wrong, or because I think a woman’s place is in the home, but because I think that those kinds of orthodoxies are wrong. Women who want to be captains of industry should go for it (though they should be aware of the tradeoffs).
I didn’t like it when Hillary Clinton said “I’m not sitting here as some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette,” I thought that was insulting to women who had made that choice. However, I did enjoy the irony of Hillary standing by her man, just like in the song.
Former NY Governor Elliot Spitzer’s wife “once bashed Hillary Rodham Clinton for staying with Bill after the Monica Lewinsky scandal.” But she, too, ended up standing by her man.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has been charging admission for years and it turns out they weren’t supposed to. Now someone has brought a class action suit to try to get the money back — for people who were wrongly charged at the door and for Met members who joined to save the admission fee that they shouldn’t have had to pay in the first place.
A personal note: The Bitemaster and Prof. Hound of Hell went to the Met a couple months ago. When we tried to go in without paying, we were turned back by an usher who directed us to the admission booth. There we were told we could go in free, but only after 5:00 pm (the galleries are cleared at 5:15 pm on Tuesdays through Thursdays).
And the Met website still says:
The Museum participates in several programs that include free admission for students. All New York City public school students, along with students from Bard Graduate Center, Barnard College, Columbia University, and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, may visit the Museum for free. Please check with your school administrator to see if your student ID allows free admission to the Museum.
If admission really is free, as Met spokesman Harold Holzer claims in the Post article, why would students need a student ID or special arrangements to get in free?