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Will Florence experience a new spring by electing a museum director as mayor? Sandro Botticelli, La Primavera, c. 1480, painting.

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It’s been a couple of months since I’ve done an art-news story. With spring in the air, the eclipse come and gone until 2044, and New Jersey rocked and rolled and not by Bon Jovi, let’s look inside the glass hive.

Museum-attendance figures from 2023 are out. It’s a challenge to divine how many people actually visit museums. Museum-provided numbers might be inflated. Geek museum directors, shunned in high school, might very well want — finally — to feel like Mr. Prom King by leading a museum with high visitorship. Impressing trustees, donors, and the museum directors in the next city might juice the clicker, too.

Brian T. Allen

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Brian T. Allen

Brian T. Allen is National Review’s art critic.

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