by Jon Lackman | 30 June 2010 | Museums
ARTnews editor Robin Cembalest writes:
When the Association of Art Museum Directors assembled in Indianapolis for its semi-annual conference … which was attended by 117 of the AAMD’s current 198 members … [it adopted] two major policy changes designed to transform the AAMD in terms of both perception and reality. One plan, sure to spark interest in the art community—though it’s also meant to foster a more general understanding of collections policy—will urge members to post “in a timely manner” lists of deaccessioned art. (Details of the policy—such as the ban on “fractional deaccessions” except to public entities—will be released on July 1.) And the second change will transform the very character of the group, by removing what some members saw as protection and others as an obstacle, including the long-standing membership cap of 200 and the annual budget requirement for member institutions of at least $2.3 million.
