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Article: GETTING INSIDE THE PAINTINGS ALBANY INSTITUTE RENDERS HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL EXHIBIT MORE VIEWER-FRIENDLY.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- May 28, 1996
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Byline: TIMOTHY CAHILL Staff writer
When the Albany Institute of History & Art decided to update its permanent collection of Hudson River School paintings, the point man for the project wasn't its art curator, but its education director, Ted Lind.
And it wasn't just gallery designers and museum professionals who were called upon to offer input but people outside of the art-industry fold schoolteachers, nurses and office workers.
Their mission? To help Lind and the institute discover what would make the exhibit more welcoming, more comfortable and more user-friendly.
Art museums, for all their charm, have not traditionally qualified ...