Sun.Mar 21, 2021

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"Selling Art to Pay the Bills Divides the Nation’s Museum Directors"

The Art Law Blog

The NYT's Robin Pogrebin and Zachary Smalls have a piece on the "heated" debate museums are having about whether to make permanent the "temporary two-year loosening of an Association of Art Museum Directors’ policy that has long prohibited American institutions from selling art from their collections to help pay the bills" -- "an idea that, depending on which institution you talk to, either makes perfect sense or undermines the very rationale for their existence.

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Speaking of the Deaccessioning Debate (UPDATED)

The Art Law Blog

I just want to thank the organizers of last week's two-day symposium on deaccessioning at Syracuse University for including me on a panel with deaccessioning luminaries Brian Frye (the Deaccessioning Hall of Fame Scholar-in-Residence ), Mark Gold , and Nicholas O'Donnell. Throughout the event I did not see a debate that was " heated " or " bitter " but rather civil and respectful at every turn.

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