Yesterday's Times covered a new program in New York I heard about a few months ago--the Center for Curatorial Leadership. The web site links the origin of the program to two converging trends in the museum world-- one is a well-publicized shortage of museum directors, the other is the increasing business and fundraising responsibilities given to curators. There is also the increasing awareness of a struggle between two different kinds of museum directorship--the curator/director and the administrator/director. A quotation from Phillipe de Montebello on the Center's web site tells you most of what you need to know about this. I suspect that any analysis of successful museum directorship would show good and disastrous examples of both kinds... the trick may be in not investing too heavily in the dichotomy. I feel our mission is very similar to the Center's -- helping the people who run arts organizations learn more of the languages and practices of business management...
... though I still don't understand why they were visiting a hospital president!
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