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Museum Legs: Fatigue and Hope in the Face of Art
by
Amy Whitaker (Goodreads Author)
An irreverent, highly original look at our rocky relationship with museums and museums' rocky relationship with us.
If you've ever considered going to an art museum and then thought, errr, I'll do something else . . . If you've ever arrived and left a little glazed and confused . . . If you've ever thought, I might read an eight-page article about art museums but not a who...more
If you've ever considered going to an art museum and then thought, errr, I'll do something else . . . If you've ever arrived and left a little glazed and confused . . . If you've ever thought, I might read an eight-page article about art museums but not a who...more
Paperback, 264 pages
Published
September 13th 2009
by Hol Art Books
(first published 2009)
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Amy Whitaker has an MBA in addition to and MFA in paiting. She has worded for musueums (Guggenheim, MoMA and the Tate), she has painted, she has worked for a hedge fund.
--I just finished HOW BUILDINGS LEARN by Stewart Brand--MUSEUM LEGS compliments Brands book--art, structure, flow.
Oddly I also found compliment to other recent favorites: THE GIFT by Lewis Hyde and Anne Carson's ECONOMY OF THE UNLOST--here the context of market is simply recognized and explored in an act of discernment.
As is m...more
--I just finished HOW BUILDINGS LEARN by Stewart Brand--MUSEUM LEGS compliments Brands book--art, structure, flow.
Oddly I also found compliment to other recent favorites: THE GIFT by Lewis Hyde and Anne Carson's ECONOMY OF THE UNLOST--here the context of market is simply recognized and explored in an act of discernment.
As is m...more
If everyone has a concept of an infinite universe that in fact conforms exactly to the confines of one’s own limited imagination, my personal version is a barbelled topography of art and finance, hovered over by a dense fog of earnest public-mindedness.
"The ability of museums to be institutions of civic importance rides on their collective capacity for intellectual empathy -- their ability to speak to people in their own idiom and to bring in new audiences -- through tireless effort at customization of messages to different groups. There are any number of reasons why this doesn't happen...Knowledge benefits from this kind of exuberant free trade -- the more it circulates, the more there is. Obfuscation is a weird and obscure mercantilism, an i...more
Loved this. Great if you're interested in museums and what they're about.
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