A public museum by its nature has to take more of a survey approach. It seemed to me that the museum model is outdated. Museums are going to have to change the way they approach potential benefactors and donors of art. I may be at the young end of the old guard at 57. But it's not going to be as simple as it once was to solicit art.
Museums have to reinvent themselves.
They're not going to just write a check. If you want access to the money, the donor is going to have to be active in the strategic direction and management of the initiatives. You almost sound like Alfred Barnes, the famous Pennsylvania-based collector of Impressionist work who also had very strong ideas about museums. Well, he certainly is one model. Peggy Guggenheim is another.