The Embattled Curator.(management of museums)
American Prospect, The, August, 2001 by KLEIN, JULIA M.
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EARLIER THIS YEAR, THE MAGAzine Museum News featured a provocative cover illustration: Sir John Everett Millais's Pre-Raphaelite image of a drowned Ophelia floating face up, with flowers in one hand. The cover line for the story, about the changing role of curators at history museums, declared: "Reports of Our Death ... Have Been Greatly Exaggerated."
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Maybe so. But if the traditional curator isn't dead, he or she is indisputably under assault. From outside the museum, big donors are playing a greater role in shaping exhibition content--a development that has ...
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