Last time, New York didn't want to give up Asher Durand's
Kindred Spirits painting to the new (will be completed in 2009) Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas. Check out
the articles on Philadelphia not wanting to give up Thomas Eakins'
The Gross Clinic. What do you think? Is it just me, or do the writers have something against sending art/culture to Arkansas?
The painting in question....