Bezugnehmend auf die schändlichen Verkäufe von Kunstwerken durch die NYPL beschäftigt sich Hilton Kramer mit den widerlichen Museumsverkäufen. Especially to be deplored is the practice of extracting works from public collections in order to auction them to the highest bidder. Institutions that receive the benisons of tax-exemption should not be allowed to exempt themselves from their responsibility to the public. A work that is in effect owned by the public should, if it is no longer relevant to the collection of one institution, pass to another public institution, not into private hands. There is an enormous amount of chicanery and bad faith surrounding the game of Deaccession Roulette. There certainly are beneficiaries of the wager, but neither the institutions that play the game nor the public that supports it is among their number.

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