Museums must stop turning a blind eye to dodgy donors
US museums have long relied on wealthy individuals, but the sources of some of that wealth makes this increasingly untenable
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The new administration is better disposed to the arts, but that doesn’t mean there’ll be more federal funding
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Art museums that consider themselves places of reflection should be thinking harder about what they are for and what needs to change
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Museums beware: permanent collections are not piggy banks
The Association of Art Museum Directors’ new guidelines for deaccessioning are welcome, but they still leave its members open to monetary temptation