Boards: It's either "all aboard!" ... or a train wreck
For any arts organization, curating a board of directors is as important as curating any million-dollar work of art. Just going after the richest, the most wanted and most famous can backfire. Division in vision can lead to stalemate and implosion, like the rupture last month that drove at least 20 of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra's 30 community board members to quit.