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Bernice Bing’s A Lady and a Roadmap (1963), which the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco bought for an undisclosed price in 2020 Kevin Candland/Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Even as the Covid-19 pandemic took an enormous toll on US art museums in 2020, forcing many to close their doors for months and make painful staff layoffs, several quietly continued to collect art. They mainly drew on earmarked acquisition funds that cannot legally be used for other purposes, given the terms of the original donors’ gifts and the laws that govern non-profits.
Most of the country’s great encyclopaedic art museums have these restricted acquisition funds, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH). So do some mid-sized museums, whether the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco or the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
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Every Monday morning, Artnet News brings you The Gray Market. The column decodes important stories from the previous week and offers unparalleled insight into the inner workings of the art industry in the process.
This week, a reinforcement of the maxim that only the paranoid survive…
ONCE MORE INTO THE BREACH