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The great museum sell-off: should public collections deaccession to survive Covid-19?
FromThe Week in Art
The great museum sell-off: should public collections deaccession to survive Covid-19?
FromThe Week in Art
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Length:
66 minutes
Released:
Oct 23, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
Following a historic relaxation of deaccessioning laws in the US, we probe the moral quandaries faced by museums forced to sell-off parts of their collections to stay afloat. We speak to Christopher Bedford, the director of the Baltimore Museum of Art in Maryland, which has announced it is to sell three works; to Georgina Adam about what this all means for the art market, and to James H. Duff, a former director of the Brandywine River Museum and chair of the Professional Issues Committee of the Association of Art Museum Directors, for an overview of the history of deaccessioning. Plus, in our latest work of the week, artist Jennifer Packer discusses a Buddhist mural in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Oct 23, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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