These Occasional Papers are from a series -- originally offered in print-- written from the Director's Office of the Harvard University Art Museums on topics of special interest to college and university art museums and galleries.

Going Public: Art Museums and Acquisitions, Now and in the Future, written by James Cuno, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director, 1998.

In the Crossfire of the Culture Wars: The Art Museum in Crisis, written by James Cuno, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director, 1995. Text of a paper delivered before the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Overseers Committee to Visit the Art Museums, 1 May 1995.

Defining the Mission of the Academic Art Museum, written by James Cuno, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director, 1994.