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Museum of Latin American Art defends auctioning dozens of works from its collection Deborah Vankin © (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) A view of the galleries at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) The Museum of Latin American Art, which put 59 artworks from its permanent collection on the auction block last weekend, defended the move Thursday as an attempt to diversify its holdings. The works joined other objects donated to the museum by supporters specifically for the online auction, which consisted of 140 paintings, sculptures,...

For the record: 11:33 AM, Dec. 11, 2020An earlier version of this post said the Palm Springs Art Museum is in Florida. It is in California. The deaccessioning of artworks from a museum’s permanent collection is widely and deeply frowned upon. Times critic Christopher Knight called MoLAA’s mass unloading of work by artists from Central and South America, Cuba, Mexico and the United States “a virtual fire sale of art” that was an “unprecedented bulk-removal of works from the museum’s collection.” MoLAA’s collection consisted of 1,333 objects, so the auction — at which 44 of th...