Based on the exhibition A Museum Looks at Itself, Past Imperfect takes us through the process involved as one museum, the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York, made itself the subject of an exhibition.
Donna De Salvo is chief curator and deputy director for programs at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has curated exhibitions, authored catalogs and essays, and lectured on a wide range of modern and contemporary artists. She curated the 1993 exhibit A Museum Looks at Itself: Mapping Past and Present at the Parrish Art Museum, 1887–1992 and authored the companion book Past Imperfect: A Museum Looks at Itself (The New Press).
