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Paintings for Pitchers–A Bold Idea

January 17, 2011 by Marion Maneker

Humorist Joe Queenan may have come up with the perfect solution for the De-Accessioning debate and it involves using art assets to shore up a town’s fading sports franchises, “what’s wrong with selling off a few items from municipal art museums and using them to pay for something the public might really enjoy?”

So would it be so wrong for the Metropolitan Museum of Art to quietly unload a couple of second-tier Monets and ship the money to the Mets front office to help pay for a solid southpaw reliever?

Trading a Monet for a Solid Southpaw (Wall Street Journal)

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