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Art museum director must be a little of everything
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ART
Art museum director must be a little of everything
By JAMES AUER of the Journal Sentinel staff
Wednesday, July 17, 2002
A number of readers have called to tell me that they're amazed, if
not scandalized, by the fact the Milwaukee Art Museum appears to be
considering candidates for the artistic directorship who are not
formally trained as art historians.
They shouldn't be.
Definitions of what constitutes an effective art-museum director
are changing...
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