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MIT has something similar for its students - they lottery off an entire gallery of art to students to keep in their dorm rooms for the year every fall [0].

I have no idea what the damage statistics are for it, but this just reminded me of it.

[0] https://listart.mit.edu/collections/student-lending-art-prog...

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I was just going to mention this. Apparently they'll only loan prints to students. Faculty can get the better stuff: https://listart.mit.edu/collections/campus-loan-art-program

In this context, prints mean "original prints" which doesn't translate to junk or reproductions. Some original prints are worth in excess of half a million dollars.

That's true. I don't know enough to know what the prints they're lending out are worth.

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