We know that museums themselves would never do anything as
"grim
and venal" as "putting
a pricetag on," or "monetizing,"
art.
That would never happen.
Wait ... hold on a second. This just in:
the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
just sold a Hopper for $40 million.
Tough break for PAFA. I guess this will lead
to its dissolution, a kind of nonprofit
controlled liquidation, if you will. Donors will stop
giving. And let's hope the surrounding counties hadn't agreed to a special tax for its benefit
because, if so, man have
they blown that.
Anyway, back to Detroit. What I don't get is why the creditors can't understand that MUSEUMS DO NOT SELL ART. It just isn't done. It's grim and venal and simply doesn't happen. What, I wonder, could ever give anyone the opposite idea?
Anyway, back to Detroit. What I don't get is why the creditors can't understand that MUSEUMS DO NOT SELL ART. It just isn't done. It's grim and venal and simply doesn't happen. What, I wonder, could ever give anyone the opposite idea?
