Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Collecting the New: A Historical Introduction 1
4. The Right to Be Wrong 15
5. To Have and to Hold 29
6. 9 Minutes 45 Seconds 41
7. Breaking Down Categories: Print Rooms, Drawing Departments, and the Museum 55
8. Keeping Time: On Collecting Film and Video Art in the Museum 65
9. Collecting New-Media Art: Just Like Anything Else, Only Different 85
10. Beyond the “Authentic-Exotic”: Collecting Contemporary Asian Art in the Twenty-first Century 103
11. The Unconscious Museum: Collecting Contemporary African Art without Knowing It 115
12. The Accidental Tourist: American Collections of Latin American Art 131
13. Collecting the Art of African-Americans at the Studio Museum in Harlem: Positioning the “New” from the Perspective of the Past 147
14. The Challenges of Conserving Contemporary Art 163
15. Acknowledgments 179
16. Index 181
17. Photography Credits 194