The New York Times > Opinion > Editorial: Giving and Taking Away

The New York Times > Opinion > Editorial: Giving and Taking Away: "The sale of these artworks is, in some sense, a tax on the past, a way to use the value that has built up over the years. But it is also - and this is the regrettable part - a tax on the future. The most important of these paintings are currently on view in the Edna Barnes Solomon Room on the third floor of the library. The odds are very good that they will be sold into private hands." wrote the Times.

What the NY Times misses is the concept that Art belongs in libraries also, just like music and film. They don't lend out books in their rare book collection. They wouldn't sell off those would they? It is clear that the Times, along with many others, see the Visual Arts as less important ........ and only a means to raise money.

This just proves that they are blind to the intellectual value of the image unless it is bound in cow hide.