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The former director of the Nassau County Museum of Art, who resigned Friday after only one month on the job, says he left because he had "expected to have a freer hand to run the place."
Alexander Gaudieri said yesterday that he realized "after about the second week" that he would not have the independence he sought at the museum, which shifted from county to private control last year. According to Gaudieri, board President Arnold A. Saltzman, a key figure in the museum's move to a private board of trustees, remained active in day-to-day decisions.
"He was the father of the new child, he helped to create it, and it's hard for a parent to let...