Orange County Museum of Art Secretly Sells Paintings, Opens Back Up Deaccessioning Debate

Speaking of hard times in the museum industry, the Orange County Museum of Art has found itself being marred by criticism over their recent sale of nearly all of their California Impressionist paintings to a private art collector. All of this was done on the quiet and quick back in March, but was discovered due to a tip to the LA Times‘s Culture Monster blog. Now that the information has been released, it’s brought the