Showing posts with label deaccessioning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label deaccessioning. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Repugnant sales of art: deaccessioning, in Switzerland

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 "Deaccessioning" is a repugnant transaction in the art world, in which it's often considered acceptable to sell art only to f...
Thursday, March 16, 2023

Deaccessioning dispute at Valparaiso

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 Selling donated art is controversial, but it is tempting when the budget is bare... The NY Times has the story: Its Georgia O’Keeffe Is Wor...
Thursday, March 25, 2021

Debating deaccessioning

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 The museum world is divided about deaccessioning--i.e. selling art to finance things other than the purchase of more art, such as museum op...
Thursday, February 25, 2021

Art museums selling art: relaxing the repugnance against "deaccessioning"

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  Here's an interesting look at the ways professional organizations can influence the behavior of their members by endorsing changes in ...
Thursday, November 12, 2020

Another art museum cancels sale of art in response to pushback

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 The NY Times has the story about another last minute cancellation of a "deaccessioning" sale by an art museum: Baltimore Museum o...
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Auction of art from Jerusalem museum postponed at the last moment

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The Guardian has the latest: Auction for Jerusalem museum’s treasures postponed at last minute--Sotheby’s in London had been due to sell mor...
Sunday, September 20, 2020

Deaccessioning art in the time of corona virus--

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  Art museums have long frowned on selling art from their collections, and have been frowned upon when they do so. (It used to be not ok to ...
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

What can museums do with their excess art?

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The NY Times has the story: Clean House to Survive? Museums Confront Their Crowded Basements "Fueled by philanthropic zeal, lucrati...
Sunday, January 7, 2018

More on the repugnance of selling art, if you're an art museum

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In Philadelphia: La Salle plan to sell museum masterpieces stuns art community " La Salle University, which has struggled to plug a...
Sunday, September 10, 2017

Why don't museums sell art (except to buy more art)?

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Brian Frye over at the Faculty Lounge published three nice posts about the professional repugnance that art museums have about selling art....
Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Repugnance watch: Deaccessioning art (i.e. selling it)

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Some time ago I had a set of posts on Brandeis University's plan to sell some of its art.  Apparently the professional ethics of museum...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Brandeis and critics agree that sales of donated art are repugnant

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After a change in presidents, the controversy about whether Brandeis University could sell its art has ended, Inside Higher Ed reports:  Br...
Thursday, January 27, 2011

Sales by museums

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The NY Times reports on a Philadelphia museum's sales of parts of its collection to finance renovations, and on the controversy this has...
Sunday, February 8, 2009

Market for art: Brandeis, continued

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When I earlier wrote about Brandeis University's decision to close its art museum and sell its art, I noted that many of the reactions t...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Market for art

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One of the unusual things about the art market is that the "velocity" of art that becomes acknowledged as important, i.e. the rate...
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