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Several major museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, already organize their administrators similarly to the Fogg. The Met employs both a director--who oversees curatorial matters at the museum--and a president, who supervises its finances. The director and the president operate independently, says Robert Goldsmith, the museum's assistant to the president...
...Fogg's problems is that it's a part of a larger university and has to compete for funds says Oldenberg. Rotner agrees, asserting. "With the new director should be an experienced administrator or there should be a high level administrator...
...Messer says it would be a mistake to duplicate the Met's plan permanently at the Fogg. "It is wrong to put the business person on top--you their subordinate, at least on paper, art to fund raising...
Messer also notes that the Fogg's curatorial system "adds a dimension of complication." Since many Fogg curators are also tenured faculty members. "It's more difficult to assert directorial authority," he says...
While Fabing says that in her experience the curators' independence never posed a problem, both she and Messer view the Fogg's curatorial system as a potentially undesirable feature of the director's job. At the Yale Art Gallery, Fabing notes, the fine arts faculty is separate from the curatorial staff...