Hasta La Ideas

The former director of both the Whitney Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, David Ross, has filed his own public letter, his in the Wall Street Journal and concerning the much-recently debated topic of museums selling pieces of their collections to keep their doors open. Ross is tossing his hat onto the side that is totally against it in this regard, claiming that selling causes museums to “lose the public trust” and should only “be done to enhance the collection — not to satisfy bondholders or bank lenders.” His complaint serves as a nice counter-point to the piece we posted last month with the LA Times Christopher Knight‘s defense of art sales. Also provides for some good additional thought on what could be the final chapter in the Rose Art Museum debacle, wherein Brandeis University has announced that they are no longer planning on selling the museum’s collection, nor do they intend to close its doors (other than to do some temporary re-hanging and dusting up after the big dust up).

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