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Jadran:
Not just under assault: becoming a seriously endangered species? In the
UK "traditional" curatorial jobs have falled from an estimated 40% or more
of total paid employees a quarter of a century ago to less that 13%
today...
Patrick Boylan
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On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Jadran Kale wrote:
> Julia M. Klein: "The Embattled Curator", in:
> The American Prospect vol. 12 no. 14, August 3, 2001
> http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V12/14/klein-j.html
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> (...) But if the traditional curator isn't dead, he or she is indisputably
> under assault. From outside the museum, big donors are playing a greater
> role in shaping exhibition content--a development that has infuriated
> curators at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American
> History. Inside museums, as the Museum News article suggests, curators are
> being asked to cede control to exhibition teams staffed by designers and
> educators pushing "visitor friendly" shows.
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> (...) We Will Survive display, a more modest undertaking that is the first
> of a planned "Community Partners" series. This bilingual exhibition was
> inspired by Patrick McCarthy's book After the Fall: Srebrenica Survivors in
> St. Louis; but it was created, in large part, by a group of local Bosnian
> refugees, who helped determine everything from the design to the story line.
>
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