Beyond the raiding of endowments in times of financial distress that might enable an organization to survive, this impermanence, less dramatically, is reflected in the healthy and regular pruning of museum collections to focus specific holdings or make room for other works (note controversial, to potentially game-changing, and mundane versions of this phenomenon).
While institutionally affiliated resources, such as endowments and museum collections, are embedded with notions of permanence, neither functions in such a solid or immobile form. © 2019 The Museum of Modern Art (all images courtesy the Museum of Modern Art, unless otherwise stated photo by Heidi Bohnenkamp)
Installation view of “Around Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” (Gallery 503), The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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