This whole situation strikes me as so paradoxical. We need work, and you need
bodies. Every curator I know feels understaffed, overworked, and frustrated
because they lack the time & manpower to accomplish all the things they'd
like to. (Any of you out there who have plenty of leisure time & more hours
in the day than you can fill--raise your hands now.) Yet the universal cry
continues--there are no jobs!  I know that art institutions are strapped for
funds, there's no budget for salaries, etc. Yet wouldn't a curator have more
leverage to demand extra staff, if the only way to get skilled people was to
pay for them? If you could say definitively "I cannot maintain this
collection or mount this exhibit or run this department with volunteers"?
I don't know--I'm no economics major. I just think it's sad all around--it
seems everybody is losing.

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