Collecting the new: museums and contemporary art

Abstract

Survey of the very specific considerations that a museum's staff must take into account in deterimining whether or not to acquire any particular work of art. New technologies, such as video and digital media, and alternative conceptions of the artwork have created special problems of conservation: what to do when deterioration is the artist's intent? How to collect ethnic-specific art from Asia, Afrika en Latin America? Essays by twelve curators representing a wide range of museums. Book review by M. Morishita published in: Museum and society. 4(2006)3(Nov.175-177)