Paul Apodaca writes:
 
>Posers from education departments will continue to
>undermine curators as they join with administration to sidetrack
>exhibitions into lesser intellectual feats while the new Directors of
>Programs usurp the entire institution. From Denver to Washington to Los
>Angeles these patterns are established. You need only fill in the names and
>you can easily describe a dozen institutions.
 
Care to fill in some of those blanks for us?
 
Do you mean that an over-emphasis on educational programs for
children and/or attempts to be more inclusive degrade the actual
purposes of the museum?
 
If people consider museums as useful utilities, they will support them,
just like Con Ed.
 
Robbin Murphy
NYU/Museum Studies
Managing Editor, ArtNet
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