Thank You, Metropolitan Museum of Art: How Headlines Help Cultural Organizations

Headlines regarding the The Metropolitan Museum of Art have brought valuable themes and strategic priorities to light within the cultural industry.

Data suggest that the top source of information for cultural executives – those great brains running our cherished museums, gardens, historic sites, performing arts organizations, and other visitor-serving institutions - is newspapers. The cultural industry on the whole still isn’t one to talk openly about its biggest challenges or greatest failures, so it stands to reason that newspapers – and inquiring reporters - may provide the most straightforward access to honest conversations. Perhaps no other organization has...