Linda Kulik writes:
 
            "There are many models for generating exhibitons. The
          curator model is considered by many to be "old school"
          The exhibit should be a collaboration between content
          specialists, designers, interpreters, educators and
          evaluators and not just curator driven. When a good team
          works together it is able to use all of it's strengths to
          rise above and address all political issues."
 
I beg to differ. For every political issue/problem a team exhibit development
process avoids, it creates new ones. I am not cynical about this process, we
use it at my institution and it works well for us.  To paint it as anything
other than another process with its own constraints and limitations is silly.
Regarding political heat from outside the institution, it makes no difference
what model for development is used.  If someone (or some group) feels
misrepresented by an exhibit, it matters not a bit to them that a team or a
curator committed the crime.
 
Aaron Goldblatt
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