According to RTE News (http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0418/italy-art-protest.html), Antonio Manfredi, the Director of the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum (near Naples) plans to burn three contemporary art works from the museum’s collection each week in protest of government budget cuts that have left Italian museums without the funds to care for the works in their possession. The first burning was done with the approval of the artist. It is desperate times for the cultural institutions of Italy, but is this measure too drastic?
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Former Blog of the American Institute for Conservation