Where in the World Is Lee Going? And Why is She Yapping on WHYY-FM Again?

I’m off today to the land of the Boy King. That could be one of two places: Cairo, or the city where they hand out these ancient artifacts:

Some art scribes go to Maastricht, “on a press trip funded by the Dutch.”
I’m going dutch treat (on my own dime) to do some digging in Philly, where I’m bound to get myself in dutch.
If all goes according to plan, you can hear me briefly pontificating about deaccessioning, one more time, on Philadelphia public radio (WHYY, 90.9 FM), tomorrow morning (probably around 6:30 a.m., repeated at 8:30 a.m.). I’ll be responding to questions put to me by reporter Joel Rose, whose renewed interest in the Eakins saga is pegged to the display of “The Gross Clinic,” starting this Wednesday, at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where it is being shuttled from the Philadelphia Museum. The two museums co-purchased the painting from Thomas Jefferson University for $68 million.
Speculation continues that it’s only a matter of time until the Philadelphia Museum announces a plan to sell art to help fund its share of the beyond-their-means purchase. Stephan Salisbury reported in yesterday’s Philadelphia Inquirer:
For the academy’s partner in the purchase, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the solution to the same [fundraising] conundrum has yet to emerge; but an art sale is almost certainly forthcoming, officials there say.
I’ll post a link to the broadcast segment when it’s up. And I’ll try to keep in touch with you, sporadically, from my laptop.