Tuesday, June 15, 2010

When Populist Is Not Popular


An interesting article in the New York Times about the Brooklyn Museum, "populist" exhibitions, the quest for younger audiences, shrinking endowments, and what is a museum for?

...Martin Baumrind, a trustee for 10 years who resigned this month because, he said, he had long opposed the museum’s direction. “What it has become is a party place and a center of celebrity — evidenced by the fact that they have partnered up with Bravo,” he said. “That is not what I signed up for.”

My question - what exactly DID you sign up for?

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