Artnet reports local grumbling about the new Contemprary Art Museum of the Presidio (CAMP). Concerns about location in regards to new clutter and traffic through the Marina, multiple museums offering to build wings for the collection, and the most notable of the lot is that people are concerned that Fisher will attempt to run the new museum as a fiefdom.

The trend for collectors opening up their own museums has reached an apex unachived since the gilded age, no longer content to open foundation galleries with their names on the marquee, Fisher is building a museum, not a wing, not a gallery, but a museum. This will invariably benefit the legacy of the founder, but ultimately the general public as well. No matter how slippery the deal is or seems to be, in regards to ego, legacy, or the market, the musuem will hold a fantastic collection of contemporary art. I speak as one of the poor bastards who doesn't have the luxury of buying art, but still love it and love to cultivate it.

The practical concerns of Fisher's museum-building shouldn't be shoved aside (nor should his ego or that he's a staunch Republican), but I'm still excited to have a new contemporary art museum in San Francisco, though I could go for a beter name than CAMP.