Connecticut’s Aldrich Muwseum is selling off its collection. “Aldrich officials say the sale is not about money because they expect to clear less than $50,000 after expenses. That is far less than the $200,000 for which the collection is insured and hardly material for an institution with a $1.5 million annual operating budget and a $7.5 million renovation and expansion under way. The usual taboos about selling art from a museum were hard to square with the mission of an institution devoted to art of the moment.”