Abstract
In 2006, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art asked the Regional Oral History Office at the University of California, Berkeley, to collaborate on a project commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the institution in 2010. This chapter examines how curators interviewed for the project discussed the concept of quality in their interviews. The working concepts that museum professionals use daily need to be distinguished from parallel theoretical debates found in publications and conference presentations. Far from being innate, quality seemed inseparable from questions of money and the power that its possessors enjoy, and those links were essential if the museum were to realize its ambitions of leaping from a local to an international arena. The epistemologically free-floating character of the object consistent with postmodern conceptions of art fitted comfortably with everyday practices concerning acquisition and exhibition in a museum of modern and contemporary art.
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