Collections and Deaccessioning in a Post-Pandemic World: Conversations with Museum Directors

by Stefanie S Jandl (Editor), Mark S Gold (Editor)

Overview

Conversations with Museum Directors is about far more than the deaccessioning of museum and gallery collections. It's about how museums will be - must be - different after Covid-19. About a transformed environment, both social and financial, and museums' total response to it. In a changed and charged reality, deaccessioning is one element of a future in which issues of social justice, inequality, race, pay and decolonisation will impact collections as never before.

It is part of a major new 950-page resource which draws on the experience and thinking of some of the world's most experienced and respected museum and gallery professionals, with a Foreword by Melody Kanschat and Antoniette M Guglielmo of the Museum Leadership Institute.

Contributors include:

• Christine Anagnos | Director, AAMD
• Christopher Bedford | Director, Baltimore Museum of Art
• Thomas Campbell | Director, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco• Michael Conforti | Former Director, Clark Art Institute
• Adrian Ellis | Director, AEA Consulting
• Kaywin Feldman | Director, National Gallery of Art
• Linda Harrison | Director, Newark Museum Art
• Glenn Lowry | Director, MoMA 

The three volumes in the collection (available separately) are:

1. Conversations with Museum Directors (this book)
2. Towards a New Reality
3. Case Studies 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781912528370
Publisher:	MuseumsEtc Ltd
Publication date:	05/23/2022
Series:	Collections and Deaccessioning , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	274
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Stefanie S Jandl is a writer and independent museum professional. She co-edited the three-volume Handbook for Academic Museums and has written on diverse museum topics including academic museums, deaccessioning, unionization, and the Mellon College and University Art Museum program. Most recently, she has written for The Art Newspaper. Jandl also writes on topics combining art and food, and contributed to The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets. A former Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programs at the Williams College Museum of Art, she has over 20 years of museum experience that also includes exhibition planning and collections management. Jandl holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Southern California and an MA in the History of Art from Williams College. She is now at work on a book about the Berkshire Museum's controversial sale of art.

Table of Contents

1. Agustín Arteaga | Dallas Museum of Art


2. Christopher Bedford | The Baltimore Museum of Art


3. Betsy Bradley | Mississippi Museum of Art

4. Thomas Campbell | Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

5. Kaywin Feldman | National Gallery of Art
, Washington DC

6. David Gordon | Former Director and CEO, Milwaukee Art Museum

7. Linda Harrison | Newark Museum of Art

8. Glenn D Lowry | The Museum of Modern Art, New York

9. Courtney J Martin | Yale Center for British Art, New Haven

10. Scott Stulen | Philbrook Museum of Art

11. Joseph Thompson | Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA)

12. Roxana Velásquez | The San Diego Museum of Art

Editorial Reviews

Anne Pasternak | Director, Brooklyn Museum

At last a book that interrogates the role of collections and deaccessions in museums at this crucial time for questioning all orthodoxies and paving a smarter, brighter path forward.

Cara Starke | Executive Director, Pulitzer Arts Foundation

This timely, thought-provoking book opens up pressing conversations about the role of museums in our society, about what it might take for them to adapt to our era of inequality, racial injustice, and social reckoning. In twelve insightful exchanges, Jandl and Gold ask museum leaders to consider some of the most urgent and controversial questions in the field - about who museums serve and how, the needs of museum audiences, and what it means to care for culture.

Steven Lubar | Professor, American Studies, History, History of Art and Architecture, Brown University

In these conversations some of America's most distinguished art museum directors wrestle with the ethical concerns arising from new rules about how the proceeds of deaccessioned art can be spent. What makes the conversations so fascinating is the way that they open up into all of the interconnected challenges facing museums today. Come for the deaccessioning debate; stay for thoughtful reflections on the big questions of racial reckonings, colonial roots, and inequality, and for insight into the ways museum directors are thinking about the balance of collections, research, public programs, and community connections.

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