Morale, Management and Money troubles at SF museums...

[Bennyboy]

The lack of a director at the Fine Arts Museums comes at a time when staff members say morale is low and some key employees have been dismissed. The agency is still suffering from the fallout of the firing of Lynn Orr, former Curator in Charge of European Art, who was stationed at the Legion of Honor and is widely respected in international art circles.

Orr planted the seed to bring Dutch paintings to the de Young in 2007, when she traveled to Maastricht and had tea with the former chief of collections at Mauritshuis, The Royal Picture Gallery. He'd told her that museum renovations would soon be in the works, so she encouraged him to schedule a tour and add San Francisco to the list of venues.

Yet when "Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis" opened at the de Young on January 26, Orr was not invited, she told the Guardian.


http://www.sfbg.com/2013/02/26/morale-management-and-money?page=0%2C0