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Between a Temple of Art and a Big Event As places to enjoy art, as
well as institutions that have become historic, museums can also be
examined through the question of who exactly heads up these temples
of art. What kinds of personalities have guided the fates of these
large, traditional institutions? How have they done so, and what
has motivated them? What galvanizes international curators or
museum employees, and how have they risen to the challenge of
opening their organizations to increasingly large numbers of
visitors? Donatien Grau has conducted impressive conversations with
influential museum operators. We have him to thank for these
personal, art historical, cultural-political, and timely insights
into museum operations, the histories of various institutions, and
their leaders' very personal attitudes toward art. This volume
reads like a detective story about the mediation efforts of museums
and the personal motives behind them. Interviews with MICHEL
LACLOTTE, Director of the Louvre, Paris, 1987-1995; SIR ALAN
BOWNESS, Director of the Tate, London, 1980-1988; SIR TIMOTHY
CLIFFORD, Director of the National Galleries of Scotland,
Edinburgh, 1984-2006; PHILIPPE DE MONTEBELLO, Director of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1977-2009; IRINA ANTONOVA,
Director of the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, 1961-2013; PETER-KLAUS
SCHUSTER, General Director of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin,
1998-2008; SIR MARK JONES, Director of the Victoria & Albert
Museum, London 2001-2011; TOM KRENS, Director of the Guggenheim
Museum, New York, Venice, and Bilbao, 1988-2008; WILFRIED SEIPEL,
General Director of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna,
1998-2008; HENRI LOYRETTE, Director of the Musee d'Orsay, Paris
(1994-2001), and the Louvre, Paris (2001-2013). DONATIEN GRAU is a
newspaper art critic, a museum curator, and a university teacher.
His lively and clever voice has a firm place in the field of art.
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