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Here's a good one: Tyler Green at Modern Art Notes reports that Times art critic Grace Glueck sits on the Board of Trustees at the Clark Art Institute in the Berkshires. Which makes writing about art so much easier for her, really. Except:

"[Times staff] may not join boards of trustees, advisory committees or similar groups except those serving journalistic organizations or otherwise promoting journalism education," the Times' own ethics handbook says. It adds that it doesn't matter that Glueck, who has 62 bylines so far this year, is technically a free-lancer: "Freelance contributors to the Times, while not its employees, will be held to the same standards as staff members when they are on Times assignments."

Hm. This could be a problem — and these sticky ethical missteps really do make one cringe.

Then again, who cares? It's just the Culture desk.

The Clark and Glueck: An Obvious Conflict [Modern Art Notes]