Coloring in the Lines?
Professional racial disparity exists; museums are no different. As with many members of racial minorities, being different is not particularly uncommon for me. But as a minority, I can’t help but weigh in on the issue of race and museums. Race and most often socio-economic challenges have a certain type of currency in museums. Museum …
Meeting Needs…
A thoughtful person asked me today if all museums worked this way. By this way, she meant with long stretches of meetings marked by legislative decision-making, interspersed with back-door conversations, and then short forays into actual work. Museums are a bit like universities in that they are presided over and populated by academics, often people …
The Art in Museums
Given 75 million dollars, and an abiding belief in the role of museums in the common good, what sort of institution would you create? The You Museum of Art? The You Museum of Culture? The Klatch of Stuff? Recently, I was sitting at a table in the midst of a wonderful debate about the merits …