TY - BOOK AU - Altshuler,Bruce TI - Collecting the new: museums and contemporary art SN - 9780691133737 (pbk.) : AV - N6486 .C65 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - Princeton, N.J., Woodstock PB - Princeton University Press KW - Art, Modern KW - 20th century KW - Collectors and collecting KW - United States KW - 21st century KW - Art museums KW - Collection management N1 - Originally published: 2005; Includes bibliographical references and index; A historical introduction; Bruce Altshuler --; The right to be wrong; Howard N. Fox --; To have and to hold; Robert Storr --; 9 minutes 45 seconds; Jeffrey Weiss --; Breaking down categories : print rooms, drawing departments, and the museum; Christophe Cherix --; Keeping time : on collecting film and video art in the museum; Chrissie Iles and Henriette Huldisch --; Collecting new-media art : just like anything else, only different; Steve Dietz --; Beyond the "authentic-exotic" : collecting contemporary Asian art in the twenty-first century; Vishakha N. Desai --; The unconscious museum : collecting contemporary African art without knowing it; Pamela McClusky --; The accidental tourist : American collections of Latin American art; Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro --; Collecting the art of African-Americans at the Studio Museum in Harlem : positioning the "new" from the perspective of the past; Lowery Stokes Sims --; The challenges of conserving contemporary art; Glenn Wharton N2 - Twelve distinguished curators discuss the questions and challenges faced by museums in acquiring and preserving contemporary art ER -