On: The entrance fee to America’s museums keeps rising

[boomboomsubban]

Offices or galleries. I imagine a fair number of businesses would be willing to pay for Guggenheim approved art, and though making it accessible to the public may be difficult they could allow scheduled viewings.

[ceejayoz → boomboomsubban]

That sounds like an insurance and preservation nightmare leading to lost and damaged art.

[boomboomsubban → ceejayoz]

IMO, better a somewhat higher risk of loss or damage actually being used than paying for them to slowly rot in a storehouse.

[ceejayoz → boomboomsubban]

They're not slowly rotting in a storehouse.

They're restored, conserved, and rotated in and out of the museum's public collection so it's ever-changing, which helps generate repeat business.

(They're often also available for academic purposes.)

[boomboomsubban → ceejayoz]

Conserving them only slows the rate of rot.

There's some truth to helping generate repeat business, but even with a 100% yearly rotation rate that's a 17 year cycle to see everything without counting new additions. I doubt people are going to lose interest because two years prior to the new showing they could have traveled to Oklahoma City to view it.