3BIG-TIME CURATORS ON THE RISE

The funny thing about innovation is that the old guard always cries foul, and the new folks storming the castle always claim that they can break all the rules in the name of progress: “Get out of the way—here comes the future,” they declare. They’re right, pretty much, but that doesn’t make the transition any less painful or the folks who are forced out of a job any less pissed off. If you were the best darn buggy-whip maker around when the horse-drawn carriage was replaced by the automobile, chances are you weren’t terribly excited about Henry Ford and his newfangled Model T.

For me, the moment that everything changed happened in a pretty unlikely place, and with a very unusual cast of characters. The location ...

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