An interesting article titled 'Are curators a vanishing breed?' by Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times Art Critic, was in the Times of Nov. 30th.
"Great museum collections are built from long-term institutional relationships, and job No. 1 for a chief curator would be to
hone those loose collecting parameters. But with regular turnover, a chief curator's primary task of implementing a consistent, effective strategy for collection development is nearly impossible to achieve."
Regards,
Lee