To expand a bit on the ethics question regarding spouses, what do people
think of  the spouse of a curator functioning as a dealer in the same field?
Ordinarily this might not be a problem--assuming the curator is not a
customer of the dealer spouse!--but I'm thinking of one situation a long time
ago when a curator who had served as a consultant to another museum helped
that institution sell duplicates from its collection to other museums, with
the spouse serving as the dealer.  A lot of eyebrows were raised for years
afterward over that arrangement.

David Haberstich

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