To help fill the growing number of openings for executives at major museums, two art experts have founded a nonprofit group in Manhattan to train curators to lead art institutions, reports The New York Times.

Every year, the Center for Curatorial Leadership will train 10 curators, who will receive planning and financial instruction from business professors. Courses run four weeks, spread over a six-month span, and students also receive six months of guidance from a mentor.

Agnes Gund, president emerita of the Museum of Modern Art — who along with Elizabeth Easton, formerly a curator of the Brooklyn Museum, founded the center — has committed $500,000 yearly through December 2009.

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