More treasures from the Grunewald Center at UCLA Hammer via the Fowler. This ingenious photograph by Doris Salcedo, a splicing of the Guggenheim Rotunda with inner city housing (the Guggenheim is on 89th, Harlem is a hop skip jump) is thought provoking and beautiful.

At first I thought it might be too facile--it's easy to poke holes at art institutions now (this photo from 2009) as they are under fire for their trustees, their racial practices, their lack of inclusiveness.

But Salcedo is actually referencing a previous 'cancelled' exhibition from 1971 of Hans Haacke (it's his photos of the housing) that also got its curator Edward Fry, dismissed. Their point was similar: to raise awareness of the building's ownership and the deals of influential trustees who were connected to the museum.

Some exhibitions and a number of directors and curators have recently gotten the heave ho; it remains to be seen whether the institutions can financially withstand wholesale house cleaning.