Lacking the resources to conserve one of the nation’s oldest museum collections of video art, the Long Beach Museum of Art will transfer its 3,000-plus tapes to the Getty Research Institute—among them works by Nam June Paik, William Wegman, and Bill Viola—reports Mike Boehm for the Los Angeles Times. Thomas Crow, director of its Research Institute, said, “There are tapes . . . here that don’t exist in any other holdings, including some that the artists themselves believed were lost.” The deal involves no money and The Getty will provide digital copies of the tapes to the Long Beach Museum
From the LA Times.