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The lives of a collection


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* Sigh *

Sounds all analytical and esoteric and philosophical. But when you cut out all of the waffle, what you really get out of this is how useless most museums are at conserving and displaying important collections, and how little regard they have for the items.
And how they are far more worried about cultural issues and what they represent than the actual items themselves and making sure they are conserved, protected and researched.
In other words, collectors are the future of art. Or museums run by collectors.

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Dale Garbutt and I once went to the basement of the Walters museum in Baltimore and spent a day going through the amazing collection that Henry Walters had built nearly a century before.   The swords and fittings were essentially uncatalogued and weren't being cared for.  It was quite dispiriting.  It was then and there that I realized that donating one's collection to a museum was like exiling them to neglect.  

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