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...Slive is not primarily an administrator. Crimson-faced and sweaty-haired, he's out of his element when not confronting the students in his museum and producing reactions between them and its works of art. Naturally he sees the Fogg as a teaching tool...
Louise Cort, assistant curator of Oriental Art, says her needs are "almost more a matter of adequate storage and work space than of more exhibition space." The Fogg has no room where students in the field can examine objects closely, she says...
...except for expanding the Fogg, Slive doesn't see any radical changes in its future. Any change that does occur, moreover, will be made in conjunction with the department of Fine Arts. For Rosenfield, "our priorities aren't in getting things but in using what we have." As he sees it, the Fogg is a great museum and would still be so even if it never acquired another work of art. But the Fogg staff, whose job is, after all, to strengthen their muscum, might tend to see their roles in a more acquisitive light...
Conflicts of this nature led to the resignation of Daniel Robbins as the Fogg's director last year. Robbins, intent on acquiring a large collection of modern art, had plans to turn the Busch-Reisinger Museum (which is effectively run by the director of the Fogg) into a museum of 20th-century art. Members of the department, however, protested the move as being contrary to the original aim of the Busch, a museum for Northern European...
...Rosenfield says. "We try to diminish distinctions between the museum and the faculty." He himself is curator of Oriental Art, G.M.A. Hanfmann, John E. Hudson Professor of Archacology, is curator of Ancient Art, and Slive is Gleason Professor of Fine Arts. It's not suprising that the Fogg's director "can't see where there's a conflict between the museum and the department...