Albright-Knox Members Debate the Sales

UPDATE: The Buffalo News reported later today that Albright-Knox members opposed a motion to stop the planned sale of some of the museum’s art by a vote of 1,224-428 (including proxies).
A meeting last night of about 600 members of the Albright-Knox Gallery to discuss its planned deaccession of 207 non-contemporary objects was “fairly evenly divided,” according to today’s Buffalo News.
But Mark Sommer reports that journalists were barred from the meeting. Couldn’t one of them have purchased a membership? This was a quasi-public forum, and the airing of publicly expressed views was a matter of public interest.
The newspaper reported that “four lawsuits have been filed in an attempt to prevent the auctions at Sotheby’s in New York City.” The results of the nonbinding vote on the sales by the members who attended last night’s meeting will be published on the Buffalo News site today.