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Museums Can Use Deaccessioning Funds for Collection Care, AAMD Says

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu September 30, 2022September 30, 2022

The Association of Art Museum Directors announced a shift in its longstanding policy, which restricted the use of funds from sales of art to new acquisitions only.

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The Toledo Museum of Art Is Deaccessioning Impressionist Works to Diversify Its Collection

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie April 27, 2022April 27, 2022

The Ohio museum is planning to auction off three paintings by Cézanne, Renoir, and Matisse with the goal of “broadening the narrative of art history.”

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Former Baltimore Museum Trustees Condemn Major Deaccessions, and One Announces Resignation

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia October 16, 2020November 5, 2020

A group of 23 former board and committee members is demanding a formal investigation into what it calls the “hasty and opaque deaccession” of three paintings from the museum’s collection.

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A Museum Sells a Prized Pollock to Acquire Art by Underrepresented Artists

by Cassie Packard September 10, 2020November 5, 2020

The Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York will sell the 1946 painting through Christie’s; it is estimated to garner between $12 and 18 million.

Demonstrators from Save the Art – Save the Museum protest the sale of Berkshire Museum artworks at Sotheby's
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Amid Protests, Berkshire Museum Sales Bring Over $40M, and Trustees Want More

by Timothy Cahill May 31, 2018June 4, 2018

Sales of the most prized works from the museum’s collection netted over $40 million, but more will hit the auction block if the institution pursues its goal of making $55 million.

Stephen Towns, "Black Sun" (2016) (courtesy of the artist; photo by Joseph Hyde)
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Artists and Curators Weigh In on Baltimore Museum’s Move to Deaccession Works by White Men to Diversify Its Collection

Avatar photo by Cara Ober May 8, 2018May 9, 2018

The Baltimore Museum of Art will deepen its holdings of works by women and artists of color using funds from sales of seven redundant works.

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National Gallery of Canada Plans to Sell a Chagall So It Can Buy a Jacques-Louis David [UPDATED]

by Claire Voon April 17, 2018April 27, 2018

The museum wants to prevent the David from leaving Canada — but it may face a bidding war with other Canadian museums.

The Berkshire Museum (illustration by the author)
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Court OKs Berkshire Museum Plan to Sell Art by Calder, Bierstadt, Picabia, and Others

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton April 5, 2018April 6, 2018

Today’s ruling in the Supreme Judicial Court of Suffolk County clears the way for Sotheby’s to auction off over three dozen works from the museum’s collection.

The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts (photo by Protophobic, via Wikimedia Commons)
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Berkshire Museum Resolves Dispute with Norman Rockwell’s Sons, But Legal Battle Rages On

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton February 20, 2018

Museum leaders and the Massachusetts Attorney General reached an agreement to keep Norman Rockwell’s “Shuffleton’s Barbershop” on public display, but opponents of the sale are petitioning the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

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University Museum Plans to Sell Works by Ingres, Degas, and More at Christie’s

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton January 9, 2018January 8, 2018

La Salle University in Philadelphia has deaccessioned works from its Art Museum collection in hopes of raising $5 million at auction.

Protesters opposing Sotheby's planned sale of works from the Berkshire Museum collection
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Opponents of Berkshire Museum Sales Protest Sotheby’s

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton November 13, 2017January 5, 2018

After a judge halted the sale of works from the museum’s collection, nearly a dozen protesters gathered in front of Sotheby’s to demand the return of the deaccessioned pieces.

The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts (photo courtesy Berkshire Museum, via Wikimedia Commons)
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Last-Minute Appeal Tries to Halt Berkshire Museum Art Auction [UPDATED]

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton November 10, 2017November 13, 2017

On Friday, the AG’s office filed an appeal seeking a last-minute injunction to stop Monday’s auction of works from the Berkshire Museum collection at Sotheby’s.

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