Shaky Degas Dancer Gets the Silent Treatment: William D. Cohan
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Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Americans rightly take great pridein the freedoms afforded to us by the First Amendment. Which iswhat makes the ongoing self-censorship among a group of highlyregarded art scholars, who work at some of our most prestigiousand respected museums and universities, so deeply and profoundlydisturbing.
Instead of speaking out publicly and forcefully againstwhat they believe to be wrong -- specifically, a questionablemultimillion-dollar trade in sculptures supposedly by EdgarDegas -- they instead meet in secret, communicate crypticallyand repeatedly decline requests to be interviewed on the record.