“Some institutions are spending more on their energy bills than they are on their exhibition programs, which is crazy.”
– Heath Lowndes, Managing Director of
Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC), on the ecological and financial footprint of climate-control systems used in collection management. “The regulations governing them were set in the 1950s and collection managers are still largely tied to these antiquated, irrelevant standards, which means they basically keep art in a fridge.”
