Or at least on how museums account for their collections.
He views it as a species of hoarding. I've had the same thought myself. As have others.
Listen here.
UPDATE: Good two sentence summary here: "His takeaways will not please museum traditionalists. First, he contends, it’s shady that museums get to avoid valuing their art collections in financial statements—and it’s even more concerning that institutions would rather let go of staff than objects, especially when most of the items are just squirreled away in storage."
UPDATE 2: Hoarders episode 2 here.
UPDATE 3: Deaccessioning Hall of Fame Scholar-in-Residence Brian Frye responds here.
