New York's Board of Regents Enacts Permanent Museum Deaccessioning Regulations

What began long before we first started reporting on it way back in 2008 has finally come to an end this week, with the New York Board of Regents voting in permanent rules concerning museums in the state deaccessioning pieces from their collections (pdf). Unfortunately, it didn’t pan out the way humorist Joe Queenan wanted it to, wherein museums could sell as they pleased, but they’d have to give the profits to struggling professional sports teams, like the Mets.