Vandenburg: This art museum is not adhering to its purpose  Its founders intended it to devote as much attention to contemporary art as to the art of earlier periods, but its collection of contemporary art is far smaller than its other collections  Simpson: The relatively small size of the museum' s contemporary art collection is appropriate  It' s an art museum, not an ethnographic museum designed to collect every style of every period
Its contemporary art collection is small because its curators believe that there is little high-quality contemporary art
The intentions of an art museum's curators should not determine what is collected by that museum.