DOES CULTURAL TOURISM PROVIDE AN OPTION FOR YOU? Recently, I spoke to a manager of a small arts institution in the DC area. Happily, he shared that he would be taking a month’s long vacation in Europe and the organization which he directs, would close July and August. This practice, no longer the norm, usually provided a modest salary with a rewarding vacation in exchange for a laborious ten-month season. In years past the principal staff of most museums and arts institutions would enjoy a welldeserved hiatus and head off to Europe where art fairs and expos beckoned, as they still do. Certainly the museums got the windfall ---- they retained their devoted and under paid employees and gained The Summer Loan Show. With little monetary costs for the institutions, this exhibition was composed of art from the first rate collections of the esteemed trustees and donors. Culturally Speaking
By Terri B.
Culturally Speaking...
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