New York’s Board of Regents Catching Heat for Allowing Museum Deaccessioning Regulations to Expire

In the middle of last month, you might recall that the New York Board of Regents made the sudden and unexpected move to let the regulations surrounding the sale of art by public museums expire, thus making it easier for them to sell pieces or whole collections to help pay bills, instead of the expected procedure wherein a museum only sells when doing so is in the interest of building up their art holdings in other areas.