Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre, but will they send their stuff to Memphis? No.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm, there's physicality.
Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.
A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.
A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.
Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.
Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.
Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it.
Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology.
I have long accepted that an art fair is not a perfectly curated museum show. Instead, it's more like a brightly lit bazaar, where art is haggled over and handled like any other commodity.
Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.