Should Museums Rent Out Their Most Famous Works?

In Boston, “a total of 26 paintings, including the marquee Dance at Bougival and Madame Roulin, have been sent to exhibitions in Italy organized by a private company called Linea d’Ombra, for a large, undisclosed fee. The combined loans and rentals have resulted in what Malcolm Rogers, the MFA’s director, readily admits is a ‘traffic jam’ of missing masterpieces.”