In our tribute to the art historian S. Lane Faison last
month, we reported that Thomas Krens, a former director of the
Solomon R. Guggenheim International Consortium—er,
Museum—was among the “dubious figures from the contemporary
museum world” who had passed through Lane Faison’s pedagogical hands
at Williams College. Many figures, some plenty dubious, from
the contemporary museum world, did study with Lane
Faison—Kirk Varnedoe and Glen Lowry, to name two—but the
widely reported link between them turns out to be unfounded. We regret the error. As
one Williams friend remarked, “The general feeling here is
that had Krens actually taken classes with Faison, he would
have turned out to be a much more respectable figure.” We
like to think so as well.