The Met is selling art to survive the pandemic. Critics say it s a dangerous precedent.
Peggy McGlone and Sebastian Smee, The Washington Post
March 8, 2021
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People sit on the steps during the public reopening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, New York on Aug. 30, 2020.Photo by Jeenah Moon for The Washington Post.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art approved a policy last week that allows proceeds from the sale of works from its collection to be used for salaries and overhead costs associated with the collection s care. The move follows similar actions by other museums, including ones in Brooklyn, Baltimore and Chicago, and marks the latest development in a debate that has been roiling the museum field, and has set some of the country s leading museum directors against one another.
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Art from Maryland on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore Museum of Art
Stymied in its bid to sell three blue-chip Modern masterworks last fall to help finance its diversity, equity and other goals, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) says it has received three gifts to support such initiatives at the museum.
The museum reports that the philanthropist Eileen Harris Norton has donated $1m to finance diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion (DEAI) efforts. Half of the gift will go towards outlays for those purposes over the next three years, and half will seed the creation of an endowment to ensure that such efforts continue, the BMA says.
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