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Has Art History Lost Its Experts?

VISUAL Posted: June 6, 2014 7:22 am

“I believe that the basic lack of connoisseurial skills we are faced with in art history is weakening the foundations of the discipline. I may be selfishly delighted when major US museums accidentally de-accession works by Van Dyck or Rubens (it happens more often than you might think), but for the public’s trust in an institution it is a disaster.”

VISUAL Published: 06.04.14

Read the story in The Art Newspaper Published: 06.04.14

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