Pope Francis orders return to Greece of Parthenon sculptures held in Vatican

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8. all museums hold work that never sees the light of day.

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.