Editing Museum of Pop Culture (section)

==Finances==
The museum has had mixed financial success.<ref name=cook>Cook, John (January 8, 2002). [http://www.seattlepi.com/business/layoff.asp?id=398 "Recent layoffs at local companies: Experience Music Project"]{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=Josve05a |fix-attempted=yes }}. ''[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]''. Retrieved October 22, 2006. {{dead link |date=April 2013}}</ref><ref name=AP>[[Associated Press]] (March 22, 2005). [https://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2005-03-22-emp-seattle_x.htm "Experience Music Project still struggling five years later"]. ''USA Today''. Retrieved October 22, 2006.</ref> In an effort to raise more funds, museum organizers used Allen's extensive art collection to create a 2006 exhibit at the museum entitled ''DoubleTake: From Monet to Lichtenstein''.<ref name=farr>Farr, Sheila (November 29, 2005). [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002652590_allenart29.html "Paul Allen's Experience Art Project"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524044205/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002652590_allenart29.html |date=May 24, 2011 }}. ''Seattle Times''. Retrieved October 22, 2006.</ref> The exhibit included [[Roy Lichtenstein]]'s ''[[Kiss II|The Kiss]]'' (1962), [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]]'s ''The Reader'' (1877), [[Vincent van Gogh]]'s ''Orchard with Peach Trees in Blossom'' (1888), [[Pablo Picasso]]'s ''Four Bathers'' (1921) and several works of art from [[Claude Monet]] including one of the ''[[Water Lilies (Monet series)|Water Lilies]]'' paintings (1919) and ''The Mula Palace'' (1908).<ref>[http://www.doubletakeexhibit.org/press/index.asp?dt=032106 "Full List of Works Announced for Upcoming DoubleTake: From Monet to Lichtenstein Exhibition"]. Press release. March 21, 2006. Retrieved 2006-10-22.  <br>. Press releases 2005/2006 (directory). Archived 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2013-04-27. {{cite web |url=http://www.doubletakeexhibit.org/press/index.asp?dt=032106 |access-date=September 29, 2007 |title=Archived copy |archive-date=September 29, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929013825/http://www.doubletakeexhibit.org/press/index.asp?dt=032106 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Since then the museum has organized numerous exhibitions focused more specifically on popular culture, such as ''Sound and Vision: Artists Tell Their Stories'', which opened February 28, 2007. This brought together both music and science fiction in a single exhibit, and drew on the museum's extensive collection of [[oral history]] recordings.<ref name=oral/> The museum's recent exhibitions have ranged from [[Horror film|horror cinema]], video games, and black leather jackets to fantasy film and literature.