I am neither an art professional nor a museum professional.  So I pose
a question to this list for comments to a statement:

A professional made a statement that no art museum (in the USA, I
assume) has purchased  contemporary landscape (plein air) art in the
last 15 years.   And further, that if one did, it (the museum, I
assume) might be laughed at.  

Is this really true? I thought museums, especially contemporary art
museums bought contemporary art, or does it only apply to certain art?

John Bing

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