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March 20, 2007
Prince Govan? Not necessarily.
For two days AJ blogger Lee Rosenbaum has been gushing over LACMA boss Michael Govan for not deaccessioning an Indian sandstone sculpture. "I KNEW someday my prince would come!" Rosenbaum wrote yesterday. And today: "We need the Michael Govans of this world -- respected museum directors who are not afraid to lead the charge against deaccessions -- to begin to set things right."
It was under Govan that the deaccessioning was moving forward in the first place. The plan was stopped less by Govan than by former LACMA curator Pratapaditya Pal, who went public with his objections to the museum's sale, forcing Govan and LACMA to do a 180.
Posted March 20, 2007 11:09 AM
