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At an online symposium this week, two former leaders of the Berkshire Museum â€” Van Shields, its executive director, and Elizabeth McGraw, its board chair â€” are scheduled to discuss the institution s sale of art in 2018. 
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PITTSFIELD — Though Van Shields and Elizabeth McGraw no longer are with the Berkshire Museum, they will reunite this week to explain the museum’s drive to sell its most valuable art a few years back. People who opposed that sale may or may not be heard.
Shields and McGraw will appear Thursday as members of an online panel in a symposium titled “Deaccessioning after 2020,” sponsored by Syracuse University’s College of Law and Graduate Program in Museum Studies. ....

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