If a museum has to sell -- or "deaccession" -- something, so says the 18,000-member American Association of Museums (of which the Rose is a member), the money should be used exclusively for the purchase of new objects for the collection.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Going Gets Tough] Reference

Museums generally "deaccession" works of art to use the proceeds to buy other works of art, and the Board of Regents already prohibits some museums from selling art to cover other costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gothamist] Reference

Also put up db of works planning to deaccession as well as ones have deaccession.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

Next process is to link funds from deaccession to artworks acquired with funds from its sale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

Ms. Urbanelli presents her deaccession as a convenient way to solve her museum's financial problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Art Museum Puts Its Collection on the Block] Reference

By narrowing or "refining" a collection through deaccession, a museum can perform a valuable function.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Art Museum Puts Its Collection on the Block] Reference

That's where this deaccession comes in -- to raise cash to satisfy the requirements of its bank bonds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Art Museum Puts Its Collection on the Block] Reference

More sketchy is MoMA's recent decision to deaccession its 1913 Picasso, Man with a Guitar, in order to raise funds for new art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hey! What's the Big Deal at MoMA?] Reference

He has the uncomfortable feeling that he shilling for deaccession but they're really just trying to be transparent about process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

I get tired of seeing the library deaccession poetry books, or refuse to take donated poetry books for their permanent collection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference

Museums not only "have a fiduciary duty to maximize value when they deaccession objects, but they have to be seen fulfilling that duty.".    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Sell a Museum Masterpiece] Reference

The "decision to deaccession a work of art," according to AAMD, "should not be made in reaction to the exigencies of a particular moment.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Art Museum Puts Its Collection on the Block] Reference

It said the museum had satisfied its concerns by making a commitment "not to deaccession works in its collection as a means of generating operating support at any point in the future.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanctions Suspended For Academy Museum] Reference

The Montclair Art Museum's collection policy and plans came under review and he takes issue with our decision to deaccession selected items from our collection during a time of financial crisis.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Are Ensuring Our Collection's Future] Reference

In general, once something enters my department, it stays put, because it is state property, and the rules required to deaccession something i.e. remove it from the collection, are extensive and a royal PITA to follow, on purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love, Marriage, and Divorce, Library-style.] Reference

"Art museums will insist donors give them the option to deaccession, and, conversely, donors will demand ironclad agreements that museums will never sell," says art consultant Richard Polsky, author of the book I Sold Andy Warhol (Too Soon).    From Wordnik.com.  [After the Recession, a Serious Crisis Awaits Museums] Reference

"The four works at Christie's had been considered for deaccession for some time — because curators felt that we had more important examples by these artists from the respective periods — and the timing was right for us considering the recent availability of a work by Kazimir Malevich.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Museum Sells Four Works to Pay for Malevich] Reference

He also identifies the next case on the deaccession docket: the City of Duluth is.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art Law Blog] Reference

Second, they must lift the ban on deaccession (the selling-off of holdings), not only to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

He said a museum will hand over -- or deaccession -- a collection only under specific circumstances.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

Of course, the deaccession of individual items from time to time to improve the quality of a collection is proper, but to deaccess the entire collection at one time?.    From Wordnik.com.  [fresnobeehive.com] Reference

The library council plans to review as many as 18,000 items (some dating back to the 15th century) for possible deaccession, with proceeds going to fund technological improvements across the library system.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhiloBiblos] Reference

So even though all of the sales - with the exception of the historical society's - are to be used to generate funds for future acquisitions, institutions that deaccession these days find themselves on the defensive.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

"That may be how people conduct their personal life," Hogan said of balancing operational budgets with deaccession monies, the way one might sell a car to pay off a separate debt, "but it just doesn't work that way with museums.".    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference

For example, it is quite reasonable that any individual library might deaccession certain little-used print holdings, but there is a system-wide need to ensure the preservation of an adequate number of print copies to enable future scholarship and potential digitization work.    From Wordnik.com.  [ArchivesBlogs] Reference

Weeding libraries library deaccessioning deaccession contains some interesting links to various libraries policies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Public Library weeding all right by me] Reference

As part of the museum's regular deaccession process of refreshing its massive collection, comprised of nearly 300,000 works.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference

As a counterexample, see the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s deaccession database, which notes where each piece was sold and for what amount: that’s radical transparency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Casualty of improper deaccessioning: integrity] Reference

The reader may want to see my personal experience with misdiagnosis and assumptions in my article, Bursitis: What is it? before making a deaccession that can’t be undone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Part 1] Reference

In an interview, Lora Urbanelli, the new director of the Montclair Museum and a member of AAMD, is upfront about the exigencies of her deaccession: "We took out tax exempt bonds at a certain time in our history.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Art Museum Puts Its Collection on the Block] Reference

Yes, there are certainly good reasons to deaccession items: if they’re duplicates, out of scope, if the museum can’t take care of them/danger to the object or staff like the nuclear fuel rods we used to have.    From Wordnik.com.  [There is no deaccessioning controversy] Reference

But in a contemporaneous series of court filings and letters to the New York State Attorney General viewed by Inner City Press, the HSA refers to its board of trustee’s January 23, 2008 resolution to “deaccession” the collection — museum terminology for selling off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Huntington Collection to be sold by Hispanic Society of America : Coin Collecting News] Reference

Another day, another deaccession.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Art Museum Puts Its Collection on the Block] Reference

On deaccession: What should museums throw out?.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Deaccession « Gerry Canavan] Reference

Tagged with art, deaccession, museums.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Deaccession « Gerry Canavan] Reference