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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