Met Director - how to curate
September 22 2013
Video: TED
Definitely worth a watch this. Met director Thomas Campbell makes (it seems to me) a plea for old fashioned, object-based displays. Money quote:
Nothing replaces the authenticity of the object presented with passionate scholarship.
Suck on that, label-free galleries.

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