Slippery Slopes
As luck would have it (or call me maladjusted), I was reading a bit on slippery slopes yesterday, specifically Eugene Volokh’s “The Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope,” and lo and behold this morning I wake to Mud coffee and Donn Zaretsky’s take on the latest anti-deaccessioning war-cry.
In a nutshell, Zaretsky argues that the slippery slope catastrophe can be avoided by simply “plow[ing] the roads now and then.” I say we use Duchamp’s In Advance of the Broken Arm.
Tags: Deaccessioning, museums, nonprofits, public trust
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