The goal was absolutely worthwhile: Raise the wages of the lowest-paid employees at the Baltimore Museum of Art to something resembling a livable income. Among those employees are entry-level museum guards earning $13.50 an hour in a city where almost 63% of the population is Black. That plan, however, went against the spirit of deaccession rules relaxed during the pandemic by the Association of Art Museum Directors and unleashed a firestorm of criticism. Andy Warhol’s “The Last Supper,” 1986, at right, was one of the works considered for deaccession at the Baltimore Museum of Art. This includes institutions such as the New Museum and the Guggenheim in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 12, 2020 12:02 UTC