Private Museum Director VS Fine Art Restorer
The First Ever Insider’s Guide for Art World Job Struggles.
DESCRIPTION
Director: Director of the museum, but assistant to the collector.
Fine Art Restorer: Fusion between first class flight attendant and lion tamer.
OUTFIT
Director: Intellect meets elegance. Often blackish-minimal.
Fine Art Restorer: Very laid‒back wardrobe: Overalls or boyfriend shirt, sneakers, and the obligatory gloves.
GETTING IN
Director: If the collector is a major client at the gallery you are working, and you know the collection well, entry is not hard.
Fine Art Restorer: Start with arts and crafts, ideally from kindergarten. If you already fixed your doll house or scooter, you are on track. Better be not on the clumsy side, other- wise it might become quite expensive.
WORKING HOURS
Director: Unless an art fair hits your town, or you are setting up a new show, a 9-6 would be the norm.
Fine Art Restorer: Leonardo’s Adoration of the Magi took six years to restore. So steady rather than overtime.
SALARY
Director: More money will go into the collection than your pay packet.
Fine Art Restorer: If you could only keep those gold leaflets that you are gluing on the little Baroque cherubs.
RECOMMENDED STUDIES
Director: A healthy mix between butler school, art history studies, finance, and practical event agency experience. Shipping background is plus.
Fine Art Restorer: The traditional path: studies, travels to Italy, meditation classes.
BEST MOMENT
Director: When your boss is off to his holiday home in the South of France for the next six weeks.
Fine Art Restorer: When you managed to fix the broken Kusama pumpkin, so it doesn’t look like a badly glued granny tea cup.
WORST MOMENT
Director: Budget discussions: You still have not found the secret of how the revenues can exceed the costs.
Fine Art Restorer: If you start to remove a minor stain on a canvas, and suddenly you have a major unexpected chemical reaction.
TRAVEL PENSUM
Director: Some art fairs and conferences e.g. privatemuseumconference.com, otherwise people come to you.
Fine Art Restorer: Florence, Florence, Florence.
UNTOLD FACTS IN JOB INTERVIEWS
Director: More MBA than Art History.
Fine Art Restorer: The UV lamp does not lie.
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