As part of a background paper for a meeting centered on art museums, I am looking at the challenges facing art museums, especially the social pressures.  Do you have ideas, references, EXAMPLES, etc. to answer a question such as:

--What are the most successful strategies in art museums for handling controversial exhibitions and censorship issues? [CAN ANYONE NAME MUSEUMS, ESPEC. ART MUSEUMS, THAT HAVE AVOIDED PROBLEMS IN SPECIFIC WAYS]

Many thanks, in advance.

Zahava D. Doering
Smithsonian Institution




PS A very good book on the recent Brooklyn controversy is Rothfield, L. (ed.) (2001) Unsettling "Sensation" Arts policy lessons from the Brooklyn Museum of Art Controversy (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press)

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