Two engaging books (filled with shorter essays, so good if your suggestions for the common reader also include specific essays) are:
Exhibiting Contradiction: Essays on the art museum in the United States by Alan Wallach &
Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display edited by Ivan Karp and Steven Lavine
 
Good luck,
Kirsten Teasdale
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I can suggest:

Whose Muse?: Art Museums and the Public Trust.

An unusually thoughtful series of meditations on the fundamental purposes of museums and how they should serve their public by six of the world's leading museum directors.


On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Said, Tania <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

 

We are in the process of making suggestions for the freshman common reader for incoming fall 2010 Ball State University students.  Since it is our 75th anniversary, I wonder if you have any suggestions for paperback books providing a window into the world of art and museums that is written in an engaging manner.  Maybe some of you have had well-received books in your museum book clubs?

 

Thanks for any help you can provide.

 

All the best,


Tania Said

 

 

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