Additionally, as a major donor to to the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, he angled for a position on their board during the management shakeup in 2013. Unfortunately, he was rebuffed due to his lack of a college degree. As a museum insider put it, “just because he can buy art does not mean he can curate it”. In addition, some reports say that wife Angelina Jolie is less than thrilled about Brad dropping so much cash on art, feeling that instead he should donate more money to charity.
— ArtNet
Bruce Willis said that Hunter Thompson told him: ‘The movie business is a shallow money trench in which creeps and perverts run rampant and good men are shot down like dogs in the street… And then, he said, there’s also a negative side.’ Fast forward to museum world. I’ve been on art boards that Made me think not everyone had access to a high school diploma. My gut is Brad Pitt is smarter than a lot of the ‘smart’ people ‘installed’ on these boards. Only a few that I met had any actual background in art or, better, art history. Then you figure out — in the museum game (or movie game) — ignorance is bliss and cash is king. The Dream has to be funded. Preferably with your cash… and as long as there’s a knowledge gap (what’s good and what is in fact, crap) that gap can be exploited. There’s a fool in every game — if you haven’t figured out who that is — there’s a high likelihood it’s you.
Is a museum a Ponzi Scheme, if for 30 years, it has solicited monies from donors but never built a museum? Google: Austin Museum of Art.
There isn’t one?
How odd.