Comments on: Freudenheim is marshalling his arguments to stop the art sale through legal channels. http://buffalobloviator.wordpress.com/2006/12/21/freudenheim-is-marshalling-his-arguments-to-stop-the-art-sale-through-legal-channels/ To Boldly Kvetch Where No Man Has Kvetched Before. Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:13:03 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Eliz http://buffalobloviator.wordpress.com/2006/12/21/freudenheim-is-marshalling-his-arguments-to-stop-the-art-sale-through-legal-channels/#comment-236 Eliz Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:57:15 +0000 http://www.buffalobloviator.wnymedia.net/2006/12/21/freudenheim-is-marshalling-his-arguments-to-stop-the-art-sale-through-legal-channels/#comment-236 I am a longtime patron of the museum who, unlike Tom Freudenheim, lives in Buffalo and visits the museum often, and I believe they are on the right track. I am a longtime patron of the museum who, unlike Tom Freudenheim, lives in Buffalo and visits the museum often, and I believe they are on the right track.

]]> By: C. Byrd http://buffalobloviator.wordpress.com/2006/12/21/freudenheim-is-marshalling-his-arguments-to-stop-the-art-sale-through-legal-channels/#comment-235 C. Byrd Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:14:20 +0000 http://www.buffalobloviator.wnymedia.net/2006/12/21/freudenheim-is-marshalling-his-arguments-to-stop-the-art-sale-through-legal-channels/#comment-235 Bloviation Nation... Nice post... I think people are ill informed about the deaccessioning and too willing to put their faith in the powers-that-be... I think the issue needs more debate regardless of which way it ends up... Bloviation Nation…

Nice post…

I think people are ill informed about the deaccessioning and too willing to put their faith in the powers-that-be…

I think the issue needs more debate regardless of which way it ends up…

]]> By: Aimée Brown Price http://buffalobloviator.wordpress.com/2006/12/21/freudenheim-is-marshalling-his-arguments-to-stop-the-art-sale-through-legal-channels/#comment-234 Aimée Brown Price Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:05:32 +0000 http://www.buffalobloviator.wnymedia.net/2006/12/21/freudenheim-is-marshalling-his-arguments-to-stop-the-art-sale-through-legal-channels/#comment-234 The second guessing of current trustees and administration as fashions change and with no sense of the importance of the history of collecting and taste (and the often cyclical nature of the latter), leads to spurts of deaccessioning which are almost always short-sighted. Once an object or painting has become part of a collection, it behooves the institution to retain it, maintain it, and exhibit it in compelling ways--to make the case for it. It is disquieting to think a major museum such as the Albright-Knox would engage in the wholesale orphaning from a public collection of works found not to the liking of the current powers that be. The second guessing of current trustees and administration as fashions change and with no sense of the importance of the history of collecting and taste (and the often cyclical nature of the latter), leads to spurts of deaccessioning which are almost always short-sighted. Once an object or painting has become part of a collection, it behooves the institution to retain it, maintain it, and exhibit it in compelling ways–to make the case for it. It is disquieting to think a major museum such as the Albright-Knox would engage in the wholesale orphaning from a public collection of works found not to the liking of the current powers that be.

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