Cambridge gallery lends art to students 'with none damaged' in 60 years
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Re: Cambridge gallery lends art to students 'with none damaged' in 60 years
#2Interesting article it sounds like they're putting a lot of (warranted) trust in the students. They were a bit coy about it, but I'd be curious to see what the values of the paintings are.
This is slightly off-topic but it was interesting to learn that "homely" has a very different meaning in the UK. Similar to "homey" in the US
Re: Cambridge gallery lends art to students 'with none damaged' in 60 years
#3I have questions: 0) How widespread is this program announced, and which students take advantage of it? Maybe students of art are more cautious. Maybe business students don't know about the program. 1) Are they all framed and behind glass/plastic/whatever? If so, they're mostly protected from casual damage. 2) Are these originals or copies? 3) Is there a policy, communicated to the borrowers, that damage has punitive consequences? If so, that could be a deterrent.
Re: Cambridge gallery lends art to students 'with none damaged' in 60 years
#4MIT has something similar for its students - they lottery off an entire gallery of art to students to keep in their dorm rooms for the year every fall [0].
I have no idea what the damage statistics are for it, but this just reminded me of it.
[0] https://listart.mit.edu/collections/student-lending-art-prog...
Re: Cambridge gallery lends art to students 'with none damaged' in 60 years
#5Trust with accountability and respect seems to go a long way some times but not others. Anyone have a theory why this system worked so effectively but other systems involving trust don't?
Re: Cambridge gallery lends art to students 'with none damaged' in 60 years
#6MIT has something similar for its students - they lottery off an entire gallery of art to students to keep in their dorm rooms for the year every fall [0]. I have no idea what the damage statistics are for it, but this just reminded me of it. [0] https://listart.mit.edu/collections/student-lending-art-prog...
I was just going to mention this. Apparently they'll only loan prints to students. Faculty can get the better stuff: https://listart.mit.edu/collections/campus-loan-art-program
Re: Cambridge gallery lends art to students 'with none damaged' in 60 years
#7MIT has something similar for its students - they lottery off an entire gallery of art to students to keep in their dorm rooms for the year every fall [0]. I have no idea what the damage statistics are for it, but this just reminded me of it. [0] https://listart.mit.edu/collections/student-lending-art-prog...
I was just going to mention this. Apparently they'll only loan prints to students. Faculty can get the better stuff: https://listart.mit.edu/collections/campus-loan-art-program
In this context, prints mean "original prints" which doesn't translate to junk or reproductions. Some original prints are worth in excess of half a million dollars.
Re: Cambridge gallery lends art to students 'with none damaged' in 60 years
#8Trinity College Dublin does the same thing. It's for free as well -- I think maybe just for students with rooms on campus but I'm not sure.
Re: Cambridge gallery lends art to students 'with none damaged' in 60 years
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was just going to mention this. Apparently they'll only loan prints to students. Faculty can get the better stuff: https://listart.mit.edu/collections/campus-loan-art-program
In this context, prints mean "original prints" which doesn't translate to junk or reproductions. Some original prints are worth in excess of half a million dollars.
That's true. I don't know enough to know what the prints they're lending out are worth.
Re: Cambridge gallery lends art to students 'with none damaged' in 60 years
#10My college does this as well. It's been happening since 1940 [1], so 79 years, longer than Cambridge. More info in [2]. The collection even includes some works by Picasso.
It's very popular here — students camp out overnight to maintain their spot in line, and the art up for rental tends to run out quickly.
[1]: https://www.oberlin.edu/news/art-rental-behind-scenes-look
[2]: https://www.oberlin.edu/news/visionary-behind-art-rental