Cabinet of Curiosities Inquiries into Museums and Their Prospects

Name: Cabinet of Curiosities Inquiries into Museums and Their Prospects
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ISBN: 9781560985112

ISBN-10: 1560985119

ISBN-13: 9781560985112

Edition: 1995

Authors: Stephen Weil

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Publication date: 3/17/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.99" wide x 9.00" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Speaking about Museums: A Meditation on Language



Progress Report from the Field: The Wintergreen Conference on Performance Indicators for Museums



Creampuffs and Hardball: Are You Really Worth What You Cost or Just Merely Worthwhile?



A Brief Meditation on Museums and the Metaphor of Institutional Growth



Museums, Hitler, and the Business of Isness



Publicly-Chosen Art: What Standards Apply?



Review: Exclusion Principle



On a New Foundation: The American Art Museum Reconceived



The Great and Renowned Kelly Sock Collection: A Fable



Collecting a Private Art Collector: In Search of the Ideal



The Deaccession Cookie Jar



Testimony Prepared for the Financial Accounting Standards Board, Norwalk, Connecticut



Review: Objects of Knowledge



Tax Policy and Private Giving



Excellence, Autonomy, and Diversity: The Case for Tax-Exempt Cultural Organizations



Testimony Offered before the Independent Commission



Dangerous Hypo/theticol



Some Perplexing Admissions



Rob Roy's Gift Revisited



Resale Royalties for Artists: Boon or Boondoggle?



Resale Royalty Hearing: New York City



Unpublished Materials and Copyright: What Can a Museum Do?



The Art World Olympics



Remarks following Receipt of the Katherine Coffey Award