The museum's much deplored curatorial policy, which is evident in the hanging of its permanent collection, supports this suspicion.
"Who will dictate the curatorial policy of the museum here in Brazil, the main office or the local branch?" asked one editorial after the Guggenheim team returned to New York.
This seems to have been more the result of insufficient space than curatorial policy - a museum that has no room to display its holdings being as anomalous as a convention center without a parking lot - but by how much won't be known until the Whitney's premises on Madison Avenue and 75th Street are enlarged.
The program's producers provide little historical or sociological context for their project, and they divulge nothing whatever about their curatorial policies.
Although Bacon praises attempts to match archival content with the myriad subjectivities explored in contemporary performance art, she cautions that, due to its dependence on market forces, philanthropy, and the curatorial policies of archiving institutions, the "expansion of representations" may, paradoxically, "reinforce the political and economic orthodoxies of the day" (83).
Joining Frieze and Zoo art fairs, Year 07 (now in its second year) claims it will deliver a show of "anti-hierarchical policy and curatorial freedom", and deliver up an alternative roster of international talent.
Items that are reviewed include national and international museum and gallery exhibitions, academic conferences, and electronic media, as well as books on art-historical criticism, arts education and policy, film, curatorial studies, and more.
However we do have a policy that our curatorial decisions will not be influenced by our sponsors".
Though she technically reports to senior deputy director Nancy Thomas, Barron says LACMA Director Michael Govan has an open-door policy when it comes to curatorial.
Museum directors generally come to their responsibilities with a background in art history and curatorial work but without experience in thinking about the management and public policy aspects of museum administration.
Unlike most individual databases, where usually a unilateral curatorial decision is made on a given representation as per the policies of the particular database, the CCDS database is unique in that the review process must be carried out by multiple collaborators, and agreement must be reached before any changes are made.
