Apparently museum visitors like a little excitement in their exhibits like designs from movie director Tim Burton which was on display last season at MoMa. Since then, attendance has fallen 11 percent compared to this same time last season to 2.8 million. Sotheby's Lisa Dennison believes the era of the blockbuster is back.
The Burton show, which ran from November 2009 to April 2010 and included drawings, paintings and sculptures by the director of “Edward Scissorhands,” was MoMA’s third-most popular ever, with 810,511 visitors. That contributed to a record 3.1 million visiting MoMA in 2009-2010. In addition to Abramovic (who sat without moving for seven hours each day) and her team of performance artists, many of them nude, the season included the work of South African artist William Kentridge and photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson.[Bloomberg]
