Sentences with phrase «as deaccession»
The process of selling artworks from a museum collection, known as deaccession, «is a necessity to ensure the greatness of the collection going forward,» Bedford said.
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Indeed, the bill is so poorly worded, some of them said, that it could be interpreted as abolishing basic property rights where museums are concerned and mandating the deaccession of such substantial portions of» their collections that they would be forced to abdicate their fiduciary responsibility — and thus be in violation of other laws.
For Priebe, who often uses books that have been deaccessioned from libraries as materials in her work, books become fodder for immersive installations populated by towers of tomes and swirling streams of pages that appear to defy the laws of physics.
SAM has published a list of previously deaccessioned artworks below, and this list will be updated regularly as changes to the collection are made.
«Relationships with museums are also important, as they are constantly looking to deaccession artwork to either raise money or tweak their collections,» says Lowry.
(Details of the policy — such as the ban on «fractional deaccessions» except to public entities — will be released on July 1.)
«Many of the greatest works in our collection are the result of deaccessioning,» Mr. Lowry added, citing as examples Gerhard Richter's Baader - Meinhof series, Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup cans, van Gogh's «Postman Joseph Roulin» and Picasso's «Demoiselles d'Avignon,» all of which were bought with funds raised by selling other artworks.
All the major museums in this country deaccession annually as a matter of routine.»
Marina Valle Noronha (Brazil) worked as a researcher across Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives, reviewing and advising on deaccessioning.
As the clock ticks down to the first set of sales of work from the Berkshire Museum's collection at Sotheby's in New York, a group opposing the deaccessioning called Save the Art — Save the Museum, which has so far raised $ 15,000 for legal challenges and publicity efforts, is organizing public events to further its cause.