Word of the Day

The most interesting thing in this Inquirer article about the sale of the Thomas Eakins' painting The Cello Player is not that the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is unloading one famous Eakins' painting so that it can pay for its purchase of a more famous Eakins' painting, The Gross Clinic.

No, what is really striking is that the people who run museums don't sell paintings. They "deaccession" them. Maybe it makes them feel better to say it that way.