Speed of Life: Keep Eakins' "Gross Clinic" in Philadelphia

This seems to be a pattern. Buy master works of American art in financially weak institutions. Says a lot about our Walmart economy where "the new" has little value. Why not put an "art tax" on Walmart!


Speed of Life: Keep Eakins' "Gross Clinic" in Philadelphia: "The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, founded by the Wal-Mart heiress Alice L. Walton and under construction in Bentonville, Arkansas, is trying to pry away another important painting from its longstanding home."