Eleven museums, eleven directors: conversations on art & leadership

Foreword: the future of museum leadership / Laura L. Lott (American Alliance of Museums)

Introduction / Michael E. Shapiro (High Museum of Art, Atlanta)

I plunged in headlong / Maxwell L. Anderson (New Cities Foundation, New York, Paris, and Geneva)

Seeing Giotto changed my life / Kaywin Feldman (Minneapolis Institute of Art)

To embrace diversity in its most complex and beautiful ways / Thelma Golden (The Studio Museum in Harlem)

Complete immersion / Michael Govan (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

Utter serendipity / Glenn D. Lowry (The Museum of Modern Art, New York)

Make artists your touchstone / Ann Philbin (Hammer Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles)

Less of an Acropolis and more of an Agora / Timothy Rub (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

Moving up to the top floor / Matthew Teitelbaum (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Every action, every thought / Gary Tinterow (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)

A total revelation / Julián Zugazagoitia (The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri)

Selected list of mentors / compiled by Annemarie Iker

Afterword / Michael E. Shapiro.