WHY ART MUSEUMS?

Alexander Dorner (18931957) became Director of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in 1938, and immediately began a radical ma keover of the galleries, drawing on theories he had developed in collaboration with modernist artists during his directorship of the Provinzialmuseum in Hanover, Germany. Alexander Dorner (18931957) became Director of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in 1938, and immediately began a radical ma keover of the galleries, drawing on theories he had developed in collaboration with modernist artists du...[Read more]