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Should a museum auction its art to raise funds?

by David Brancaccio and Daniel Shin
Oct 28, 2020
It's an existential question, says art critic Blake Gopnik. Once a work of art is in a museum, it's supposed to be more or less unsellable.
The Baltimore Museum of Art's plan to sell off pieces in its collection — including a silk screen of Andy Warhol's "The Last Supper," pictured above — was met with backlash from patrons and donors.
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A former hedge fund manager turns complex financial issues into art

by Mark Garrison
Jun 6, 2016
Nelson Saiers wants to say something original about the world he once worked in.
"Uppberbound," a piece by Nelson Saiers.
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