Sale of Museum Paintings Helps Conclude Strong Auction Season
The deaccessioning of 15 works by museums, including an important Thomas Cole painting, helped raise Sotheby’s total art sales over the last week to more than $715 million.
Thomas Cole’s “The Arch of Nero” (1846) was auctioned at Sotheby’s for the Newark Museum of Art on Wednesday. Historians had campaigned against the museum’s deaccessioning.Credit.via Sotheby s
By Zachary Small
May 19, 2021, 2:37 p.m. ET
Fifteen objects from cultural institutions passed through Sotheby’s at auction on Wednesday, showing that the debate among museum and industry leaders over deaccessioning hasn’t stopped these sales from occurring.
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Column: Cleveland Browns’ road playoff victory takes USD coach back to ’69 [The San Diego Union-Tribune]
If you were stunned to see the Cleveland Browns go up 28 points on the Pittsburgh Steelers last week in an NFL playoff game, it didn’t mark you as a football rube.
In Rancho Bernardo, football lifer Dale Lindsey stared in disbelief.
“I was shocked to see what was going on,” said the University of San Diego’s head coach, who played in eight NFL playoff games as a Browns linebacker and coached on San Diego’s only Super Bowl team.
It wasn’t that Lindsey, 77, regarded the Browns as chumps.