I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.
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Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else?
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves.
That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
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.
Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos, eating, hanging out, things that make noise - all are now the norm, often edging out much else.
Art should be created for life, not for the museum.
Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.
Museums, I think, are becoming more and more aware of how to turn themselves into a must-see spectacle.
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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