In the hypothetical case presented of the hundreds of unwanted
paintings, perhaps this would be an ideal transfer to the Museum of
Bad Art which we have read about on this list? I think the MBA is
located in Somerville or Cambridge, Mass. However awful they are,
there is something horrifying about the idea of destroying them. I
inherited several paint-by-numbers works from my ex-husband's aunt,
and even those I felt, & still feel, like a criminal for trashing!
Mary Day Kent, University of Pennsylvania Museum




>You are not the only one, I'm sure. We have a lot of these itmes,
>partially bought by the museum/the city in the postware time for charity
>reasons, some came into the museum by pure ignorance, especially in this
>mass.
>You can't destroy them!! Find other ways.
>We give every year a bundle of those subjects to x-mas charity auctions,
>if good enough, we use it for representive gifts by the mayor. But this a
>very dangerous thing. Politicans very easy understand the museumas a
>self-service for gifts, a bit of Idi-Amin...
>Be very careful in deaccessioning those items, think about the opinion of
>still living (and probably better) artist who might give parts of your
>work to you.
>Be very careful, but you can perhaps rent a garage and store all this
>stuff there for the next twenty years. Be sure it is rain- and antproof,
>look once every year inside an decide again.
>You can also decorate the town-hall with it.
>Gerhard Dangel-Reese
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