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Gerald Loftus

Categories Cultural Diplomacy, Diplomatic History, Historic Preservation, Legation Tales, Museum, TALIM

Can’t Stop Curating

November 2, 2014June 26, 2014 2 Comments by Michael Toler
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New “name cloud” exhibit listing literary & artistic friends of Paul Bowles who were drawn to Tangier

Can’t stop curating?

Well, I do have to stop – we’re getting on the ferry to Spain Friday morning!  Friends have joked that I’ll still be at it tomorrow morning, mounting yet more exhibits while my wife waits in the car.  Not true; I stopped this afternoon.

At the French Consulate’s 14 Juillet reception after we arrived in 2010, a Moroccan friend introduced me as the “nouveau conservateur” in what people in Tangier only knew then as the “Musée de l’Ancienne Légation Américaine.”  I joked that I was no conservative… I was a Democrat!

But the point is that conservateur or curator was the way people thought of this position in this city.  I thought that was a bit limiting – how about our research library?  Our seminars?  The Arabic literacy program?  Etc.  I also didn’t like that ancienne thing – made it sound like we were closed.

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