Found via Blogcritics.org - NPR arts reporter David D'Arcy is fired after the MOMA complains about his coverage of the controversy surrounding ownership of Egon Schiele's "Portrait of Wally" painting.


But did he really do anything wrong or, in the words of NPR, "overlook the basical standards of journalism"? Artnet.com asks the questions and shows how art critics, historians and even CBS's Morley Safer are coming to the defense of the freelance writer who'd been with NPR for nearly 20 years.