This guy makes a very compelling case at ARTnews.
UPDATE: Brian Frye: "The jig is up, folks."
Tom Flynn: "[E]ven without the curse of coronavirus, deaccessioning was always going to be an inevitable consequence of the essentially unsustainable nature of many museum collections."
Victoria Reed: "I don't know if the AAMD stance is a turning of the tide as much as it is an acknowledgment that US museums are in really, very dire financial circumstances at the moment."
