We're a Group of Museum Directors Who Pooled Resources During the Pandemic. Here's Why Others Should Consider Doing the Same
Harry Philbrick of Philadelphia Contemporary and Christina Vassallo of the Fabric Workshop and Museum. Photo: Carlos Avendaño. Museums are traditionally very good at telling, but not very good at listening. This is obvious not only in the ways museums are often removed from the public they’re meant to serve, but in the ways they’re distant from each other. Yet unexpectedly, the pandemic has afforded museums and arts organizations all kinds of opportunities to close some of that distance, and the results have us rethinking what’s possible. Last spring, as we at the Fabric Workshop and M...