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...York City's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum was in trouble. Money was tight; the museum's famous Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building was falling apart; exhibitions were uninspired; donors were losing interest. Enter Thomas Krens, armed with a degree in nonprofit management from Yale. As the Guggenheim's new director, he offered the board of trustees a stark choice: Preserve funds and run the museum conservatively, or attack. "If you want a vital institution," he said, "change has to take place on so many fronts that it's likely to be bewildering...
That turned out to be an understatement. Today the museum has projects going in New York, Massachusetts, Italy, Austria and Spain, and a Guggenheim exhibit has just wound up a four-month tour of Australia. Using aggressive financial and marketing strategies normally applied to commercial enterprises, Krens, 45, may be reinventing the way museums do business -- and in the process creating the art world's first multinational. He is the most outspoken and controversial of a growing number of museum directors who are fusing hard- edged business acumen with classic connoisseurship...
...really a visionary," says Arthur Levitt Jr., former head of the American Stock Exchange and a Guggenheim board member. "But he's breaking some eggs in the art community." Krens' business-school jargon and management style offend many in the traditionally genteel, nonprofit world of museums. Says Hilton Kramer, editor of the New Criterion, a monthly arts review: "Krens has so far proven himself to be a complete disaster. His conception of a museum is all about expansion. He's a perfect example of what happens to a major cultural institution when it is given over to a bureaucrat...
...core of the enterprise. Frank Lloyd Wright is one of the gods from whom Meier claims stylistic influence, and the basic form of this building -- a five- story cylinder whose salient interior feature is a broad ramp that follows the building's curve as it descends -- suggests Wright's Guggenheim Museum with the sides straightened and one large slice of the layer cake removed...
...panel, which included the Kennedy School's Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice Mark H. Moore, joined with a 13-member citizen advisory panel in February to scrutinize the all-male group of remaining candidates in a series of interviews. Healy referred to the panels' recommendations before narrowing the field to five finalists in early March...