Quoth the director of the Yale University Art Gallery in this New York Times article, they're ''the most hypocritical bunch of looters I've ever run across.''
Here's the rundown:
O'Keefe donated a superb collection of paintings from Stieglitz's collection to Fisk in 1949 because Fisk educated African-Americans in the segregated South.
Fisk has apparently been pretty bad at fund-raising, and with a revolving-door administration it seems to run from crisis to crisis.
Having said that, it's their art and in my humble opinion they should be able to benefit from it financially, one way or another. But the O'Keefe museum mounts a legal challenge to their every effort to do so.
What, can't they at least lease the works out, or license reproduction rights? If Boston's MFA can do it, I'd think Fisk should be able to.
Guaranteed, if Fisk declares bankruptcy and just closes the doors, all one hundred-and-one pieces of this fabulous asset will hit the auction block faster than you can say Sotheby's.
12/28/2007
Jock Reynolds Lays it Down
on the Georgia O'Keefe Museum for
Holding Down Cash-Strapped Fisk University
12/08/2007
Joe Fyfe's Blog
I've been a huge fan of Joe Fyfe since I started reading his Art in America reviews years ago, and then learned shortly thereafter about his artwork. I think he's still living in Vietnam. Check out his blog, and also his Hanoi Diaries.
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