ACQUIRING ETHICS

The American Association of Museums, comprised of 3,000 museums and 11,400 museum professionals and trustees, will adopt new ethical guidelines for how museums deal with art borrowed from private collections. Following in the wake of the Brooklyn Museum scandal in which it was discovered that Charles Saatchi, the exhibit’s largest donor, was also its single largest financial backer, the question of curatorial ethics has loomed large at arts organizations around America. New York Times