The Right Way for Museums to Dispose of Art…

is not by selling it, if the piece is of museum quality. If a museum can’t use a work that a sister institution would be pleased to exhibit, what ought to happen is this.
In a previous post, reacting to comments made to me by curator Gary Tinterow of the Metropolitan Museum, CultureGrrl opined:
Collection-sharing IS an option—one that should be more seriously explored by all museums with a superabundance of riches.
Now, as my fellow ArtsJournal blogger Tyler Green reports, the Met has loaned to the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas an Eduardo Chillida that Tinterow had originally hoped to sell from the collection. Let’s hope that this happy outcome serves as a model solution for over-stuffed storage space.