Alexander Dorner's radical ideas about the purpose of museums and art, examined through his tenure as Director of the RISD Museum. Alexander Dorner (1893–1957

A leading activist museum director explains why museums are at the center of a political storm In an age of protest, cultural institutions have come under fire.

A compelling examination of the art museum from a renowned director, this sweeping book explores how architecture, vision, and funding have transformed art muse

The Art Museum is the finest art collection ever assembled between two covers. This revolutionary and unprecedented virtual art museum in a book, features 1,000

In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the first modern, public museums of art—civic, state, or national—appeared throughout Europe, setting a sta