Leadership roster
A static roster of documented leadership transitions at New York and metropolitan-area museums, kept separate from the dated chronology so a roster reads as a roster. Sortable by any column.
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Corrections & open items
Everything this build changed or could not close. Corrections are entries whose date moved once a primary source was read. Open items are entries that no primary source has yet confirmed — they stay visible rather than being quietly dropped, because an absence of records is itself a finding.
Method & sources
What counts as an event
An entry is admitted only if it has a date attached and names a specific act by a specific body — an appointment, a budget action, an award, a filing, an adopted policy, a published notice. Undated material, characterizations, and inferences are not entries. Where an entry rests on a reading of a document rather than the document's own words, the verification note says so.
Three dimensions
- Leadership — appointments, departures, designations, confirmations, searches, and the roles that carry stewardship authority.
- Funding — budget proposals and enactments, appropriations, grant rounds and awards, philanthropic gifts, and findings about how money was drawn or used.
- Policy — regulation, adopted frameworks, repatriation notices, public process, exhibitions, and the institutional decisions that set terms.
The dimension is the primary filter because it is where argument lives: leadership churn, funding concentration, and policy movement are three different claims, and mixing them flattens all three.
Date semantics
A single event usually has several dates — announced, effective, filed, published, enacted. Each entry records which one its date is, shown next to the date. Month-only and year-only dates are marked as approximate rather than being padded into a false precision.
Verification status
- Verified — the issuing body's own document was fetched and it states the date and the substance.
- Corrected — the primary source contradicted the date previously carried, and the date here is the corrected one.
- Partly verified — the core act checks out but a figure, a quotation, a title, or a characterization does not. The note says which.
- Corroborated — supported by a credible secondary source, with no primary document located.
- Flagged — carried from research notes as a lead, not a settled fact.
Government and other records
Government records are kept distinguishable from other institutional and community material so that different kinds of authority do not collapse into one chronology. A press account of a state action and the state action itself are not the same record.
What this is not
This is a documented, sourced record within a bounded window — not a complete census of New York cultural heritage. Clustering in the chronology is a documented pattern, not a causal claim. Where sources conflict, both readings are noted rather than resolved silently.