Thursday, October 2, 2008

Italy Seeks Chief Curator

Italy is looking for someone to oversee its multitude of museums: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081001/lf_nm_life/us_finearts_italianmuseums_1;_ylt=AmzNl9u.vrhSEsw3uS3hcRpFeQoB

This will be a big challenge. Italy is blessed with an unparallelled inventory of cultural artifacts and sites. Unfortunately, Italy is also cursed with a choking cultural bureaucracy and little apparent appetite for investing sufficient funds for upkeep let alone making these cultural institutions world class.

Only those with considerable intestinal fortitude and an innate ability to navigate the vagaries of the Italian bureaucracy and political system need apply for this post.

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