tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575323233407462974.comments2023-10-30T05:10:31.292-04:00The Deaccessioning BlogSergio Muñoz Sarmientohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18365215427617702363noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575323233407462974.post-2641478451278380872013-07-31T00:32:41.157-04:002013-07-31T00:32:41.157-04:00Graham Beal says "...the D.I.A.’s financial s...Graham Beal says "...the D.I.A.’s financial situation is more secure than it has been for 40 years." <br /><br />Well, just as long as you forget that Detroit, the city that owns the entire DIA permanent collection, has just filed for bankruptcy. <br /><br />Then again, Kevyn Orr's artwork covenants may be on the verge of mobilizing Detroit's investment in DIA artworks to create a Detroit Arts Endowment that restructures its unfunded liabilities at 100 cents on the dollar and funds security and insurance for DIA artworks and arts programs for Detroit. Do you think that endowment, roughly $30 billion, is what Beal refers to?Dr. Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14615091282331722833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575323233407462974.post-63517952748564525462013-07-21T18:52:33.902-04:002013-07-21T18:52:33.902-04:00Detroit's investment in artworks is on more-or...Detroit's investment in artworks is on more-or-less the same scale as Dr. Barnes's investment in education: the artworks Barnes left his Barnes Foundation school are worth on the order of $25 billion. Capital value on that scale could not only fund Detroit's unfunded liabilities, but fund security and insurance for Detroit's DIA artworks and fund arts programs throughout the city. You may wonder why Detroit's $25 billion would fund security and insurance for DIA artworks if that money is earning cash for unfunded liabilities and arts programs. Wouldn't Detroit's DIA artworks be gone if Detroit had the use of $25 billion?<br /><br />If Kevyn Orr uses bankruptcy to clear away the DIA Operating Agreement that has let DIA Corp. so far block his call for selling artwork covenants instead of artworks, DIA artworks hanging on DIA walls could earn cash for Detroit's recovery. With a Detroit Arts Commission run by Detroit artists instead of suburban billionaire art collectors, arts teachers, prizes, commissions, scholarships, etc. would get the kind of funding that now goes to DIA Inc. curators who sell what the Detroit's DIA collection already has to buy what their hearts desire. If you want a vibrant Detroit, let Detroit artists guide the spending of available funds from the Detroit Arts Endowment.<br /><br />Dr. Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14615091282331722833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575323233407462974.post-89216528233470198872013-07-20T21:17:51.187-04:002013-07-20T21:17:51.187-04:00Free Press reporter Mark Stryker highlights Kevyn ...Free Press reporter Mark Stryker highlights Kevyn Orr's court filing about Detroit's DIA collection*. In context with Orr's call for DIA Corp. to protect Detroit's artworks by "forming some covenants in ways that would monetize the value of the asset there but keep the art here in Detroit,"** Orr's filing may mean: (a) engaging all interested parties will include creditors in the dialogue regarding the City-owned art collection, not just DIA Corp.; (b) reconciling the competing positions means keeping DIA artworks on DIA walls (for the public trust) while they earn cash for Detroit (with artwork covenants); (c) which produces the very resolution that maximizes the long term benefits to the City -- the DIA stays as it is -- and the prospects for a successful restructuring -- the creditors happily take the 100 cents on the dollar that a Detroit Arts Endowment can fund***. <br /><br /><br />* http://www.freep.com/comments/article/20130718/NEWS/307180160/Are-DIA-works-more-risk-bankruptcy-<br /><br />** http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/detroit/emergency-manager-kevyn-orr-wants-appraisal-of-collection-at-detroit-institute-of-arts (see 00:52 to 01:12)<br /><br />*** Art market experts value just 38 top DIA artworks (out of 60,000+) at more than $2.5 billion, suggesting the DIA can make a huge difference to Detroit's restructuring:<br /><br />http://www.freep.com/article/20130523/NEWS01/305230154/DIA-Kevyn-Orr-Detroit-bankruptcy-artDr. Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14615091282331722833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575323233407462974.post-74016725168523356152013-06-02T00:12:34.439-04:002013-06-02T00:12:34.439-04:00Here's my transcript of the very short Channel...Here's my transcript of the very short Channel 7 News video sequence* (00:52 to 01:12) that summarizes Kevyn Orr's way to protect DIA artworks:<br /><br /> Jim Kiertzner at the DIA: "...the Emergency Manager [Kevyn Orr] doesn't want to sell assets here. He told the DIA several weeks ago to protect the assets."<br /><br /> Bill Nowling [Kevyn Orr's spokesman]: "They could look at forming some covenants in ways that would monetize the value of the asset there but keep the art here in Detroit."<br /><br />Selling artwork covenants to investors, as I see it, lets the DIA keep Detroit's Monet while investor money goes into a Detroit Artworks Endowment that funds, in priority order:<br /> 1) security and insurance for the DIA artworks backing the covenants <br /> 2) unfunded liabilities that could otherwise cause a default or divert city revenues away away from current priority services<br /> 3) the arts! <br />Have your Monet and money too! Since artwork covenant sales raise money to prevent a default, creditors can't get at the artworks! Now there's real protection for DIA artworks, and to get it Detroit only gives up the capital appreciation that curators ordinarily use to trade artworks they've got for artworks they want. If Detroiters are happy with the artworks they've got, they're not out anything for their huge new source of income!<br /><br />Trying to protect artworks with a "public trust" is a public bust! Professional standards for museums don't apply to cities, even cities that own museums, and AAM/AAMD rules especially don't trump a museum-owning city's legal obligation to adequately provide essential municipal services. So, back to Kevyn Orr, who offers a method that can actually work because it generates the cash to fund liabilities and avoid default! Orr never did say sell the artworks -- that comes from lazy reporters who don't serve their readers. He just said DIA artworks are part of the solution. There's a big difference. Here's hoping reporters start picking up on it.<br /><br />* http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/detroit/emergency-manager-kevyn-orr-wants-appraisal-of-collection-at-detroit-institute-of-arts<br />Dr. Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14615091282331722833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575323233407462974.post-36498014804058275912013-05-26T14:16:34.253-04:002013-05-26T14:16:34.253-04:00That's as interesting a take on deaccessioning...That's as interesting a take on deaccessioning as this is:<br /><br />http://peabodyslament.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/deaccessioning/<br /><br />Thanks for sharing.<br /><br />T.H. Gray, Director-Curator<br />American Hysterical SocietyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575323233407462974.post-10832910811227701722011-02-13T09:54:31.119-05:002011-02-13T09:54:31.119-05:00I'm with Mr. Anonymous regarding the "mag...I'm with Mr. Anonymous regarding the "magic moment" of seeing things in person.<br /><br />But I also think museums have the cultural responsibility to make their collections as accessible as posssible for a viewing public that can't always make it to the gallery.<br /><br />Especially regarding that vast majority of their collections which is kept off view.<br /><br />For example, last year the Art Institute of Chicago had a spectacular exhibition of tapestries, most of which had never been on view since the museum first collected them 80 years ago.<br /><br />The exhibition lasted 8 weeks, and now the pieces are back in the basement, likely never to be seen again in our lifetimes.<br /><br />That's the sort of thing that should get the super-high resolution images on the internet -but not only did the museum fail to do that, it didn't even allow vistors to take their own pictures, and pictures in the printed catalog are simply inadequate for the close-up enjoyment that this kind of artwork can offer.<br /><br />All power to the Google Art Project!<br /><br />Let's hope every museum eventually will sign up, and that every piece is given a giga-pixel photo.chris millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09575033275184403015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575323233407462974.post-68494526728033337732011-02-07T14:09:16.716-05:002011-02-07T14:09:16.716-05:00Dear Anonymous:
I see your point. However, your ...Dear Anonymous: <br /><br />I see your point. However, your take on this issue is precisely what I am critiquing: the fact that you still allocate such a "magical" moment to the physical "experiencing" of art. Think of the great good Google's Art Project could have for deaccessioned pieces which were in remote locations and/or in private hands? <br /><br />-smsSergio Munoz Sarmientonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575323233407462974.post-38620563689993011982011-02-05T20:56:41.117-05:002011-02-05T20:56:41.117-05:00A photograph of a drawing is not a drawing. A digi...A photograph of a drawing is not a drawing. A digital version of a painting is not a painting. There is nothing magical about this. Serious artists and art appreciators go to museums because they can only see the work there, in the focus provided by their own eyes, under reflected light that approximates the light under which the work was created. Institutions that try to use digital means to draw people to their collections are being effective advertisers. Viewers who think that the advertisements can teach them much are shortchanging their own, unique abilities to absorb, and to see.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575323233407462974.post-80835496839197803652010-11-23T05:35:19.367-05:002010-11-23T05:35:19.367-05:00A birth injury law firm that also has a civil righ...A <a href="http://www.martinstanleylaw.com/birth-injury-lawfirm.php" rel="nofollow">birth injury law firm</a> that also has a civil right attorney who fights for you whether you’ve been wronged or been in jet ski accidents and need help.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06186467108016060541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575323233407462974.post-84220758433810254562010-11-09T23:16:12.487-05:002010-11-09T23:16:12.487-05:00Of course there's a middle ground! James Maro...Of course there's a middle ground! James Maroney has his tenancy-in-common Maroney Plan, and I've got my equitable-servitude Coaccession(SM) method (patent-pending, naturally). Since art cannot live by appreciation alone, museums need a way to have their Monet and money, too. Every donated artwork comes with an endowment for its care: the artwork's financial value. It's up to museum management to find the right tool to mobilize that financial value while keeping the artwork's cultural value in the public domain.Dr. Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14615091282331722833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575323233407462974.post-87836297155839837422010-03-12T10:38:33.306-05:002010-03-12T10:38:33.306-05:00Hello friend amazing post about Supreme Judicial C...Hello friend amazing post about Supreme Judicial Court Won't Hear Suit Against Brandeis thanks for sharing!!colon cancerhttp://www.coloncancersymptoms.us/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575323233407462974.post-47067878994050608322010-02-10T08:45:13.080-05:002010-02-10T08:45:13.080-05:00It is extremely interesting for me to read the art...It is extremely interesting for me to read the article. Thanks the author for it. I like such topics and anything connected to this matter. 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If they wait, though, the AAMD may never get their Massachusetts.<br /><br />And while Coaccessioning your artworks doesn't technically violate AAMD's deaccession rules, it's still a good way to fight the machine.Dr. Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14615091282331722833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575323233407462974.post-26650211034675846882010-01-06T09:58:19.492-05:002010-01-06T09:58:19.492-05:00Great blog as for me. It would be great to read a ...Great blog as for me. It would be great to read a bit more about that matter. The only thing I would like to see on that blog is a <a href="http://www.jammer-store.com/images/product_images/popup_images/45_0.jpg" rel="nofollow">photo</a> of some device.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575323233407462974.post-89505925304775990402009-12-29T05:51:06.306-05:002009-12-29T05:51:06.306-05:00Interesting article as for me. It would be great t...Interesting article as for me. 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If you ignore the value of the artwork itself, you don't realize that many art museums of all sizes are stunningly wealthy institutions.<br /><br />If you do focus on the total wealth these institutions control, "the art bureaucrats at the top, those pious guardians of our nonprofit castles of culture ...deserve our scorn right now..." all the more for letting "the personnel who do the unglamorous day-to-day stuff that makes these places run" get "hardest hit" and for first cutting "variable costs, which are the programming costs." Deaccession doesn't let a museum have its Monet and money, too, even when it needs the money quite as badly as those museums Davis points out. So, the museum profession desperately needs to pursue innovations that mobilize the collection's financial value without jeopardizing, as deaccessioning does, its cultural value. The time for leaders is right now.Mark Whitehttp://coaccession-at-gmail.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575323233407462974.post-61688470816083166752009-07-11T17:13:11.807-04:002009-07-11T17:13:11.807-04:00Dawoud,
My apologies for such a belated reply. I...Dawoud, <br /><br />My apologies for such a belated reply. I will indeed reply to your posts and look at the "CoAccessioning" concept. <br /><br />'til soon, <br />smsSergio Muñoz Sarmientohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18365215427617702363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575323233407462974.post-53466567892335756112009-07-09T09:14:25.237-04:002009-07-09T09:14:25.237-04:00If you are still following the Art Talk Chicago bl...If you are still following the Art Talk Chicago blog, I wonder what you think about the CoAccessioning concept. It seems to offer a balanced solution: the museum keeps the work on view for the public while also reaping the financial benefits of selling a stake in the work. <br /><br />Here is art consultant Paul Klein's definition of the term: "CoAccession: to divide various ownership rights (like possession, financial interest and/or curatorial interest, etc.) This is new and has not been done yet, but appears to be a legal and a likely possibility."Dawoud Beynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575323233407462974.post-4017860503972626142009-07-07T21:57:41.915-04:002009-07-07T21:57:41.915-04:00It's not that I personally find it "dubio...It's not that I personally find it "dubious" so much as the museum field itself has not yet been conclusive on this issue. What make it dubious is that there is no consensus within the field itself. <br /><br />I myself am beginning to believe that something is going to have to give.Dawoud Beyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17536346991511470491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575323233407462974.post-61030386446657729932009-06-30T04:20:28.136-04:002009-06-30T04:20:28.136-04:00I think young people nowdays must work on keeping ...I think young people nowdays must work on keeping their own culture by preserving national values.<br />This could be achieved by keeping these values in a museum.<br />The Politechnics University Museum site was realized by a few students beeing published temporarily here:<br /><a href="http://muzeuupb.uuuq.com" rel="nofollow">http://muzeuupb.uuuq.com</a>.<br />It represents a science museum in where we can find varius hystorical technical models.<br />For improovments of the site wich is just a scale model you can write us a message on the<br /><a href="http://muzeuupb.uuuq.com/index.php?page=contact" rel="nofollow">Contact Form</a>.<br />Thanks for your support.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00675003337224168641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575323233407462974.post-61870922981264043992009-06-27T14:18:46.880-04:002009-06-27T14:18:46.880-04:00Dobrsynski's post is completely slanted . She ...Dobrsynski's post is completely slanted . She fails to mention that the renowned Brandeis museum will not be closing after all and its world-class art collection is not being dismantled,althuogh its purpose is being revisited. She also fails to mention the $23 million dollar gift to Brandeis to construct a humanities center that will help place Brandeis at the forefront of study in th0se fields. See: <br />http://www.brandeis.edu/now/2008/january/mandelgift.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575323233407462974.post-9801466178330954332009-06-06T10:33:44.643-04:002009-06-06T10:33:44.643-04:00Hi..!
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