Last Saturday the Las Vegas Art Museum closed, a victim of the economic downturn. Commentator Erika Pope has written as an art critic in recent years and she takes the museum's board at its word when it calls the closure "a hibernation period."

Related Items on News 88.9 KNPR:

• 2/27/09: LVAM Closing
• 12/17/08: The Arts and the Economic Downturn

More on the Web:

• Classic Las Vegas: Las Vegas Art Museum closing at end of month
• LV Sun: LVAM is closing, but it don't bother Jim
• LV Sun: Strapped Las Vegas Art Museum plans to shutter

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