Museums can now shop a network to extend their collections
At last, there is a matching service for art galleries and philanthropists who want to donate their collected works.
While it is not a problem for major museums, such as New York’s Metropolitan, to secure art collections, it is not always so easy for smaller galleries worldwide.
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For art collectors interested in donating a work, one worry has long been that their gift, a valuable, possibly beloved, painting would end up in a museum basement, where many items from permanent collections reside, unseen.
For museums that depend on the generosity of donors, the concern has been that it’s difficult to compete for works against the most prestigious and popular of their kind.
Do Museums Need a Shopping Network for Art Donations?
A new venture suggests it will help art institutions find works of art that collectors have decided they want to give away as gifts.
“Landscape for an Absconded God,” a painting by Jonathan Lasker, is a work that an art collector is seeking to donate through a new venture. Credit.Jonathan Lasker and Greene Naftali
Jan. 21, 2021
For art collectors interested in donating a work, one worry has long been that their gift, a valuable, possibly beloved, painting would end up in a museum basement, where many items from permanent collections reside, unseen.
Here are the best art shows Boston missed in 2020
By Murray Whyte Globe Staff,Updated December 23, 2020, 12:57 p.m.
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A view of Carlos Garaicoa s Partitura, canceled at Peabody Essex last spring.Courtesy Peabody Essex Museum (Custom credit)
âTis the season for year-end best-ofs, but in this year like no other, what about the never-was? There are almost too many to count â the canceled and postponed, the cut-short and half-made. Some, mercifully, were flexible enough to be mothballed, held over or refitted for a socially-distanced world, including two of the Museum of Fine Artsâ big offerings for its sesquicentennial, exhibitions on Jean-Michel Basquiat and Claude Monet. But at least they
by The Editors
CHILA KUMARI SINGH BURMAN‘s
remembering a brave new world (2020) at Tate Britain, London, 2020. Image via Tate’s Facebook.
Good riddance, 2020! It has taken
a lot to get through the past year, including mental agility as well as emotional strength and perseverance. For the
AAP editors, an installation with whale song and an archive of well-wishes posted to online medical fundraisers were among the things that helped. Check out some of the books and artist projects we loved this year, and stay tuned for more of our faves in our next blog!
Chila Kumari Singh Burman’s Tate Britain commission