Museum Deaccessions – Ever Ongoing Debate and Dilemma
While letting go of artworks has allowed museums to improve their diversity of collections, attract more traffic to new works, and help continue operations financially, deaccession will always have its detractors and almost certainly pushbacks. This year in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art was under scrutiny for its plans to auction off 300 […]
Philanthropy and Ethics: The Sackler Family Case
Why do the world’s most elite and wealthiest give the arts hefty amounts of money? Maybe they are passionate about preserving works for generations to come. Perhaps they want to direct their charitable giving to a more tangible cause. Or maybe having a wing named after them in an institution frequented by the public is […]
Michelangelo, the Divine
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. – Michelangelo By the time the Metropolitan Museum of Art closed its exhibition “Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer” on February 12, 2018, it had brought in an astonishing 702,516 visitors during its short 3-month run, making it one of the Met’s most […]
New Art World and Changing Concept of Ownership
On February 7, 2017, The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced a new policy known as Open Access, releasing large number of images of artworks from the museum’s 2 million collections in the public domain freely available for unrestricted use. These art images represent “the main body of collections” according to the museum’s director Thomas P. […]