Always Low Expecations. Always.

Everyone's talking about Randolph College, whose Maier Museum art collection, if you'll recall, is on Alice Wanton's shopping list:

• Lenny Campello passes along the news that a group of interested and concerned parties have brought forth a suit to prevent the Maier Museum from deaccessioning
  
• Jeffry Cudlin recalls what the museum meant to him while growing up in Lynchburg
  
• Richard Lacayo interviews Laura Katzman, former Randolph College art professor and Maier Museum director

In related news, the state of Tennessee ruled that Fisk University can't sell its collection to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum when there's a better offer on the table from Crystal Bridges. However, before Fisk University can proceed with the sale to Walton, it must prove in a separate case that it did not forfeit its hold on the Stieglitz collection entirely by violating the terms of O'Keeffe's original bequest, which mandated specific guidelines for displaying and maintaining the collection. Diverse has the detailed report.