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MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS  By Bernard Bujold-  NATHALIE BONDIL, the former director of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has filed a $2 million lawsuit against the institution. Nathalie Bondil is seeking $1 million in moral damages and another $1 million in punitive damages.  https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/arts-visuels/586246/bondil-poursuit-le-c-a-du-mbam-pour-2-millions   At the Museum level, Pierre Bourgie has been identified to replace Michel de La Chenelière as the next President of the Museum and to recruit Nathalie Bondil's replacement. However, his nomination must await the annual meeting of September 29.  https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/arts-visuels/2020-09-18/c-a-du-musee-des-beaux-arts-de-montreal/pierre-bourgie-designe-pour-succeder-a-michel-de-la-cheneliere.php   It is worth mentioning that Quebec's Minister of Culture, Nathalie Roy, received the report of the independent expert who had been commissioned to shed light on the crisis shaking the...

THE FUTURE OF THE MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS  By Bernard Bujold There is a fundamental question about the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Who owns the institution? In legal terms, it is a "semi-private" museum. The definition is important because let's take the case of La Presse or Cirque du Soleil. Two Montreal institutions that are privately owned. No one could stop the owners from doing what they wanted with it. In the case of the MBAM, who can decide its situation and its future? Suppose, theoretically, that the Board of Directors and its president decide to sell all the permanent collections to an outside organization and decide that the Museum should instead become a large temporary exhibition hall without a collection of its own, like Place des Arts, which does not owns any shows? In reality, Nathalie Bondil's dismissal is a bit like the transformation of La Presse into a non-profit organization or the sale of the Cirque to financiers. Indeed, Nathalie's de...