Sunday, March 04, 2007

"Fisk needs the bread, and the Mona Lisa is not worth one kid's education"

That's New York art dealer Larry Salander, as quoted in a piece in the Sunday Tennessean that begins: "It's hard to think of a current situation that's more polarizing locally than Fisk University's proposed sale of two valuable paintings from its Alfred Stieglitz Collection, donated to the school by painter Georgia O'Keeffe in 1949."

Full story here.