>On Sat, 24 Sep 1994, Paul Apodaca wrote:
 
>The "team approach" has also had a number of failures that are important to
>consider. The most notable was the debacle at the Field Museum wherein the
>"team" so fouled the curatorial approach that curators resigned and wall
>labels were put up disavowing the exhibit. I believe Museum News carried
>articles about that situation....
 
This statement is unsubstantiated.
 
Could you identify when this incident happened? The exhibition? The
curator(s) who resigned? The labels you allude to? The issues of Museum
News that you say reported on this or your source for this information?
 
Kevin Coffee
Manager of Exhibitions
American Museum of Natural History
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