... everything back to Native American's, especially human remains. And the list goes on and on: the Benin Bronzes, ......

I hope Pope Francis started a tipping moment. Bless him.

think this is cuz the british museum is getting ready to send the elgins back.
there’s been a ton of progress, but it will take forever.
beau lays it out-

i wont be happy til the vatican art collection is on the auction block. esp the naughty bits in the bsmt.

i might have been the only person hoping that the detroit museum would deaccession some work after the 08 crash. how work ends up in museum collections is mostly a big grift. collectors serve on boards to push the artists they collect. they buy from struggling artists, get their institutions to show them, buy them, and they get so very fat on resale. and works get stuffed into warehouses, never to be seen again.

i’d rather have it in bill gates house.

that’s the actual racket w museums. they rly arent the sacred, selfless institutions most ppl think they are.

warehouses full of great work that is unlikely to be seen EVER again.
have more than a couple friends who wish selling to a museum wasnt a necessity in the biz.

If you think a billionaire is more entitled to hang onto it than a museum, what can I say.

Also, I know lots of artists, and I've never heard them talk so about museums. Maybe you just run in different circles.

are any of your artist friends in museums? a few of mine are.
i went to the school of the art institute. srsly, they’re a racket. a better racket than say, strip mining. but ppl serve on museum boards, hell, they start museums, to boost the value of the work they own. work they paid shit for from the artist. then they make millions. they arent the holy temples you think they are. no saints. just rich sinners.

You are entitled to your opinions. Museums of all types have been a great joy to us: we love exploring the past, and enjoying great works that we would never have been able to see otherwise.

I have no interest in continuing a disagreement on Christmas night. So long.

On second thought, onto my ignore list you go.

Too much of the planet was looted - the Brits are among the worst of the looters