Berkshire Museum’s Murky “Transparency”: Parsing the Half-Truths in Its “Open Letter”
If this is transparency, we can only wonder what opacity looks like.
Open Letter to the Berkshire Museum’s Board of Trustees
Open Letter to the Berkshire Museum’s Board of Trustees, October 27, 2017
We strongly oppose the museum’s decision to sell artwork that iconic artists such as Norman Rockwell personally donated on behalf of the community he loved.
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Deaccessioning: The good, the bad, and the illegal
by Felix Salmon, Cause & EffectOctober 23, 2017
I’ve been clear for some months now that I consider the Berkshire Museum’s current deaccessioning plan to be a very, very bad idea. But is it illegal?
The opponents of the...
The Lost Masterpieces of Norman Rockwell Country
The Berkshire Museum’s most valuable art works are two paintings that Norman Rockwell personally donated. Photo by Underwood Archives / Getty
by Felix Salmon, The New YorkerOctober 4, 2017
The Berkshires, in...
Why a Massachusetts museum selling its prized Norman Rockwell painting should worry art museums everywhere
The Berkshire Museum’s plan to sell 40 works of art, including one of Norman Rockwell’s best paintings, to pay bills has generated protests. ©2017 Photo by Gillian Jones / AP
Christopher Knight, LA Times Art CriticAugust 23, 2017
Maybe...
Berkshire Museum Faces Uproar Over Sale of Artworks from Collection
Norman Rockwell, Shuffleton’s Barbershop, 1950. Rockwell gifted his painting to the Berkshire Museum and for the benefit of the citizens.
Artforum, July 25, 2017
Two paintings by Norman Rockwell—Shaftsbury Blacksmith Shop, 1940, and Shuffleton...
ABOUT
SAVE THE ART (STA)
A grassroots citizens group established in 2017 with the intent of stopping the sale of the Berkshire Museum’s treasured art collection in order to find an alternate solution to its continued financial shortfall.
MISSION
The mission of Save the Art is to advocate for and protect the Public Trust — the art and objects belonging to all of us that document humankind’s creative and social history through time.
PRESS
We thank the Berkshire Eagle for their extensive investigative coverage, the journalists, op-ed writers and our community for their hundreds of letters of concern. In particular, STA applauds Larry Parnass, Investigations Editor, Berkshire Eagle, for his excellent coverage of the Berkshire Museum and achievement of the 2018 Outstanding Journalism award from the New England Newspaper and Press Association.