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You mention that “Dia cannot be a mausoleum, it needs to grow and develop.” The primary purpose of Dia has been to collect and present bodies of work by a select group of artists in permanent installations and to realize site-specific commissions, also in permanent situations. It is uninformed and disrespectful of your history to equate permanence with mausoleum…
Your remarks about having too few Twomblys and too many Chamberlains are facile. Cy believed that all his drawings, collages, sculptures and paintings at Dia and Menil that were not installed at the Cy Twombly Gallery should form a reserve to be used by both institutions and should never be sold. “Poems to the Sea” is enough to fill an entire gallery itself. It has been done before, beautifully. It would be brilliant at Beacon… A little creative thinking goes much further than a trip to the auction house and does not damage your integrity and reputation.
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- Paul Winkler vs Philippe Vergne. The “mausoleum" quote was indeed tone-deaf. Especially to the large group of us — including most museum directors — who love the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Which is, literally, a mausoleum.
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