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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ceo Of Culture Inc. | 1/20/1992 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ceo Of Culture Inc. | 1/20/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ceo Of Culture Inc. | 1/20/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Grand New Getty | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Jonathan Samuels, | Title: New Police Commissioner Takes Charge | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

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