The Albright-Knox Deaccession Dispute, Continued
This just in from Buffalo Art Keepers, the group of Albright-Knox Art Gallery members opposed to the planned major deaccessions of works from the Buffalo museum's collection:
The Erie County Legislature will address the issue of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery's controversial decision to sell at auction 207 works of art from the gallery's permanent collection at the Feb. 22 meeting of the legislature's Community Enrichment Committee. The auctions are scheduled to begin at Sotheby's in New York on Mar. 19.
Michele Iannello, Erie County legislator for Kenmore-Tonawanda and chair of the Community Enrichment Committee, which oversees cultural non-profits that receive county funding, has invited representatives of the Albright-Knox and the Buffalo Art Keepers, a group of members that is opposing the sale, to present their respective sides at the meeting. Museum director Louis Grachos and members of the museum's board of directors are expected to make a presentation explaining their case for the sale. The Community Enrichment Committee was instrumental in preventing the sale of the Buffalo Museum of Science "Milestones of Science" collection in the mid 1990s.
The meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 22 at 9 a.m. in the legislature's chambers on the fourth floor of County Hall, 92 Franklin St., Buffalo.
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