Julia M. Klein: "The Embattled Curator", in:
The American Prospect vol. 12 no. 14, August 3, 2001
http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V12/14/klein-j.html

(...) 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 infuriated
curators at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American
History. Inside museums, as the Museum News article suggests, curators are
being asked to cede control to exhibition teams staffed by designers and
educators pushing "visitor friendly" shows.

(...) We Will Survive display, a more modest undertaking that is the first
of a planned "Community Partners" series. This bilingual exhibition was
inspired by Patrick McCarthy's book After the Fall: Srebrenica Survivors in
St. Louis; but it was created, in large part, by a group of local Bosnian
refugees, who helped determine everything from the design to the story line.

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