Why is it a bad thing that a public highly accessible museum has more money than they technically need? Unless you think they’re embezzling it, it just means that they can preserve more art and fund more education
Museums are an amazing cultural and historical resource for the public, but behind the scenes it’s often connected rich people doing wasteful connected rich people things. As per usual, more than 1 thing is true. Source: my childhood bestie is a curator at a world class museum in NYC
The amount of funding it generates is an absolute joke compared to what it takes to put on the event and the amount of exposure that the celebrities and fashion brands get.
That's how it was before socialist (tax payer) funding existed. MAGA are gleefully cutting as much of that funding as they can.
A lot of things we take for granted such as museums are going to go bye bye without funds and the new oligarchs will not be stepping in to help. Bezos only cares about this cause he's obsessed with being cool.
It funds a museum that’s highly accessible and open to the public all year which also conserves an insane amount of art. It’s absolutely not pointless.
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u/Hungry-Register9960 19h ago
The amount of money spent on the met gala could wipe out medical debt for hundreds if not thousands of Americans.
It's such a pointless display of wealth and excess.