Making Museums Matter

Foreword ix THE MUSEUM IN PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE Organization-wide Quality: A Theory of Museums and Immodest Proposal 3(21) (F)FeTMu 24(4) From Being about Something to Being for Somebody: The Ongoing Transformation of the American Museum 28(25) Fantasy Islands 53(2) Museums: Can and Do They Make a Difference? 55(20) New Words, Familiar Music: The Museum as Social Enterprise 75(6) Transformed from a Cemetery of Bric-a-brac 81(12) THE MUSEUM AS WORKPLACE The Distinctive Numerator 93(6) A Parable of Rocks and Reasons 99(3) Romance versus Realism: A Reflection on the Nature of Museums 102(7) Museum Publishing: Some Revolutions in Progress 109(17) If Content Is Out, Aesthetics Must Be In 126(10) The Museum at the End of Time 136(5) Collecting Then, Collecting Today: What's the Difference? 141(10) Twenty-One Ways to Buy Art 151(8) THE MUSEUM AS PALACE Courtly Ghosts and Aristocratic Artifacts 159(11) Reduced to Art 170(18) John Cotton Dana's New Museum 188(7) THE MUSEUM IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE The Museum and the Public 195(19) The American Legal Response to the Problem of Holocaust Art 214(25) Fair Use and the Visual Arts: Please Leave Some Room for Robin Hood 239(14) Cloning and Copyright 253(10) Fair Use and Museum Use: How Close Is the Overlap? 263(7) Not Money, Control 270