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January 30, 2008

New Effort to Groom Arts Leaders Gets Under Way

A new fellowship program seeks to train museum curators in business skills so that people with art training — not business leaders — can take a stronger role in managing cultural institutions, reports The New York Times.

The Center for Curatorial Leadership, a two-week program created by Elizabeth W. Easton, former chairwoman of the European paintings and sculpture department at the Brooklyn Museum, focuses on the issues typically dealt with by museum directors such as attendance, donations, construction, endowments, the news media, governmental support, and budgets.

The center, The Times reports, is supported by Agnes Gund, president emerita of the Museum of Modern Art, who contributed more than $500,000 a year to the program.

Ms. Gund, who serves on the boards of several prominent museums, said she often sees curators get overlooked by selection committees for executive posts because of their lack of business experience. She hopes the program will help combat this trend and “keep the people who are in charge focused on the most important thing about museums, which is the art part.”

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