What would it look like if museums turned their billions toward positive good instead of questionable investments simply for profit?
Tom Finkelpearl
Tom Finkelpearl organized 15 shows at PS1 in the 1980s, worked on over 100 public art commissions at NYC's Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) in the 1990s, and spearheaded a 50,000-square-foot expansion as Director of the Queens Museum (2002-2014). He oversaw cultural funding and the city's first cultural plan when he returned to DCLA as Commissioner (2014-2020). He has published two books: Dialogues in Public Art (MIT Press, 2000) and What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation (Duke University Press, 2013). Currently, he is working on a book on the challenges facing American art museums in collaboration with Pablo Helguera.
