I couldn’t say this until I got my correspondent’s permission this morning: The person who tipped me off late yesterday afternoon to the possibility that the University of Iowa might be thinking about selling its Pollock was none other than the marketing and media manager of the museum itself, Maggie Anderson…
…which bespeaks a real concern among museum staffers about the eventual fate of their signature artwork—shades of the Maier Museum Massacre at Randolph College.