On The New School’s past attempts to sell its murals by José Clemente Orozco, Gil Bittner writes that deaccessioning works that were made for specific universities is to betray “the school’s educational mission and intellectual legacy.”
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When The New School Tried to Sell the Orozco Room - Public Seminar
Gil Bittner argues that The New School's Orozco murals, like other university collection artworks, are educational resources, not fungible assets.