CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Preface

RETHINKING THE MUSEUM

Enough Museums? (1983)

Fighting Off Some Dry Rot, Woodworm, and Damp (1985)

A Meditation on Small and Large Museums (1987)

The Proper Business of the Museum: Ideas or Things? (1988)

Rethinking the Museum: An Emerging New Paradigm (1990)

MUSEUM MANAGEMENT: WORKERS, COLLECTIONS, AND OTHER CONCERNS

The Well-Managed Museum (Earl F. Cheit, coauthor) (1989)

In Pursuit of a Profession: The Status of Museum Work in America (1987)

Coleman’s Vision of the Museum Worker: Is it Still Valid Today? (1989)

The More Effective Director: Specialist or Generalist? (1987)

Deaccession Practices in American Museums (1986)

Deaccessioning Modern and Contemporary Art: Some Notes on the American Experience (1989)

Too Much Art? (1989)

The Museum Management Institute: Its Genesis and Early Years (1985)

Review: The Arts and Public Policy in the United States (1985)

REPOSE AND OTHER BRIEF LEGAL NOTES

Repose (1987)

(Afterword: Guggenheim Extract from 1989 Litigation Update)

Who Owns the Nataraja? (1989)

Legal Aspects of the Display of Imitations (1985)

A Meditation on Work (1985)

Art, Law, and Utopia (1983)