A historical introduction / Bruce Altshuler
The right to be wrong / Howard N. Fox
To have and to hold / Robert Storr
9 minutes 45 seconds / Jeffrey Weiss
Breaking down categories: print rooms, drawing departments, and the museum / Christophe Cherix
On collecting film and video art in the museum / Chrissie Iles and Henriette Huldisch
Collecting new-media art: Just like anything else, only different / Steve Dietz
Beyond the "authentic-exotic": collecting contemporary Asian art in the twenty-first century / Vishakha N. Desai
The unconscious museum: collecting contemporary African art without knowing it / Pamela McClusky
The accidental tourist: American collections of Latin American art / Gabriel Perez-Barreiro
Collecting the art of African-Americans at the studio museum in Harlem: positioning the "New" from the perspective of the past / Lowery Stokes Sims
Tchallengesges of conserving contemporary art / Glenn Wharton.
Collecting the new : museums and contemporary art. ISBN 9780691119403. Published by Princeton University Press in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.