Adrienne: 

You may want to avoid making the kind of statement that you included in your 
recent posting (particularly "<<In any case, the guggenheim administration 
has apparently proved itself to be spectacularly incompetent, having spent 
itself almost to death on follies such as a twenty million dollar Web site.>
>"). 

This kind of statement is an unfair and ungrounded generalization. Yes, the 
NYT wrote about the Guggenheim layoff and financial situations and they 
quoted folks critical of the Guggenheim management but I am sure there is 
another side to this story that wasn't published in the NYT (if you believe 
in balanced media coverage... ) Your categorization of the leadership of the 
institution as "spectacularly incompetent" is really a bit too much! The 
Guggenheim took an entrepreneurial risk and they may / may not succeed--that 
does not make them incompetent.

From my end, I applaud the Guggenheim's thinking outside the traditional box 
and I hope the tide turns around and they succeed. After 10+ years of 
evaluating museums as part of my job as a grantmaker, I think it's about time 
we move away from thinking of museums (and any cultural institution) as 
'temples' of goodness, where everything is done for the goodness of humanity. 
As for $20 million website follies... nothing ventured, nothing gained. 

BTW, I have no connections whatsoever with the Guggenheim (other than great 
admiration for the Franks)

Happy Thanksgiving to All!

María Muñoz-Blanco
Deputy Director
Fulton County Arts Council
141 Pryor St. SW, Suite 2030
Atlanta, GA  30303
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happens to us."
Jean-Paul Sartre


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