Administrative Decisions in Museums
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- Aageson, Thomas H. "Five Steps to an Effective Museum Purchasing Plan."Museum News.
July/August. 1999: 36-37, 56-63.
The author, a manager at Mystic Seaport for nineteen years discusses his five step
marketing plan. The plan includes: performing a situation analysis; determining market opportunity;
setting market objectives, planning strategy and program development; and, after implementation,
continual monitoring and evaluation.
- Able, Edward. "Travel Partners."Museum News. March/April. 1999: 71.
AAM mission statement about the importance of forming organizations to promote
cultural tourism.
- Able Edward. "Their Perception, Our Reality."Museum News. Sept. /Oct.
1999: 83.
Details how museums can, with the use of AAMs campaign kit, enlist the
"support of media and government on a local level." At the same time, AAM will pursue the
same track on a national level.
- Angioni Martin and Lodovica Busiri Vici. "'Process, not product'." The Art Newspaper. 36.
"The founding director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York,
reviews her work of the past twenty-two years."
- Bailey, Martin. "The MD at the BM." The Art Newspaper. May. 1999: 21.
"The first ever managing director and the director of the British Museum discuss
their respective roles."
- Bailey, Martin. "Radical change at the top of Britain's top museum."The Art Newspaper.
Feb. 1999: 51.
Article discusses how the the appointment of a managing director, in addition to the
director, will change the way the British Museum is run. The greatest change gives the managing
director final say in all matters of budget and expenditures.
- Bailey, Martin. "Round and round we go."The Art Newspaper. June.
1998: 13.
A short list of foreign-born directors recently picked to head major museums.
- Barry, John. "It Takes More Than A Village To Raise a Museum." The New York Times.
Wed. April 21. 1999: 9.
Author John Barry learns firsthand about how difficult it is to make the dream
of a new museum a reality.
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- Bruni, Frank. "Where to Put a Renaissance Man? In the Smithsonian."The New York
Times. Mon, 20. 1999: A10.
Times feature article on Lawrence Small, president of Fannie Mae, who was recently named cheif executive of the Smithsonian.
- Carr, David. "The Need for the Museum." Musuem News. March/April.
1999. 31-35, 56-57.
Discusses the role the museum plays in defining the relationship people develop with cultural institutions.
- Failing, Patricia. "Deaccessioning: A 'Sorry Drama.'" ArtNews. Sept. 1997.
- Heartney, Eleanor. "Growing Pains." Art in America. June. 1999: 45-51.
Details what the MoMA/ P.S. merger, the temporary closure of the SoHo Guggenheim,
the DiaÍs plans to open a museum near Beacon, N.Y., and the staff turnover at the Whitney ñportends for
the New York art world."
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- Glueck, Grace. "The Job Description Reads, 'Do it All.'" The New York Times.
Wed. April 21st. 1999:
Gone are the days when curators dealt mainly with an exhibits academic concerns.
Today, a curator is often responsible for building relationships with colleagues at other museums,
overseeing the design and decor of exhibition spaces, pushing for the acqusition of objects, creating
liasons between the public and the museum and raising funds.
- Kramer, Hilton. "Macolm Rogers Talks Smugly After His Boston Massacre."
Hilton Kramer eloquently expresses his dislike of Macolm RogerÍs decision to fire 18
members of the Boston MuseumÍs staff, including two senior curators.
- Kaufman, Jason. "Staff sacking unleashes furor."The Art Newspaper. Sept. 1999:
14-15.
- Kaufman, Jason E. "Maker of world-class art museums."The Art Newspaper.
Oct. 1997: 15.
Focuses on Thomas Kren's global marketing philosophy for the Guggenheim museum.
Dicusses Bilbao, plans for upcoming museums in Berlin, Venice and Seoul.
- Kaufman, Jason E. "Trustees back "massacre" director Malcolm Rogers."The Art Newspaper.
Oct. 1999.
Short column on aftershocks of major changes in curatorial staff at the Boston Museum of Fine Art.
- "Microsoft's new man."The Art Newspaper.Sept. 1999.
- Molotsky, Irvin. "President of Fannie Mae Is to Lead Smithsonian." The New York Times. Sept, 14. 1999: 1, 6.
Lawrence M. Small, a Citibank banking executive, will leave his job to head
the Smithsonian Museum.
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- Pinchbeck, Daniel. "All that rises must converge."The Art Newspaper. March. 1999: 19.
- Pine, Joseph B. and Gilmore, James. "The Experience Economy."Museum News. March/April. 1999: 45-48.
- Pirie, Robert. "More About Boston." Letters.The Art Newspaper
. Oct. 1999: 4.
Critical commentary on Malcolm Roger's curatorial changes at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
- Stam, Deirdre C. "The Informed Muse."Museum Management and Curatorship.
1993: 267-283.
- Tomkins, Calvin. "The Importance of Being Elitist."The New Yorker. 24 Nov. 1997:
58-70.
Charts the rise of the Met's Philippe Montebello as one of the most important voices in
the art world today. Personal history, statements regarding the past, present and future of museums.
- "The Boston Massacre."The Art Newspaper. Sept. 1999: 1.
- Turner, Brooke. "Appointment of journalist to the National Gallery
unleashes fury."The Art Newspaper. July-August. 1999: 9.
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