“I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated.” ThinkingWayNeedsSeemsOrderCultureInterestingSakePopsMuseumsEngagingPop Culture Author:John Hodgman
“One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it. Even if people don't fully understand where my work is coming from, at least there's somebody who looks kind of sane standing in front of you and politely engaging with you. People react.” PeopleIfsLooksKindArtStillsCultureForgetSuccessfulFrontsFieldsArt IsStandingContemporarySaneEngaging Author:Tino Sehgal
“The novelist has more and more to say to readers who have less and less time to read: where to find the energy to engage a culture in crisis when the crisis consists in the impossibility of engaging with the culture?” CultureEnergyReaderCrisisNovelistsEngagingImpossibility Book:How to Be Alone: Essays Source: How to Be Alone: Essays
“I recently went to my staircase at Clare College, Cambridge and there were women there! There have been a lot of convincing studies recently about the loss of productivity in the Western male. It may be that entertainment culture now is so engaging that it keeps people satisfied. We didn't have that. Science was much more fun than listening to the radio. When you are 16 or 17 and in that inherently semi-lonely period when you are deciding whether to be an intellectual, many now don't bother.” PeopleMayHas BeensScienceCultureFunLossStudyCollegeListeningPeriodsIntellectualLonelyWesternMalesRadioEntertainmentProductivitySatisfiedBotherEngagingConvincingCambridgeStaircases Author:James D. Watson
“Without a thorough and deeply rooted understanding of the biblical view of truth as revealed, objective, absolute, universal, eternally engaging, antithetical and exclusive, unified and systematic, and as an end in itself, the Christian response to postmodernism will be muted by the surrounding culture or will make illicit compromises with the truth-impoverished spirit of the age. The good news is that truth is still truth, that it provides a backbone for witness and ministry in postmodern times, and that God's truth will never fail.” StillsEndsAgeChristianSpiritCultureUnderstandingViewsFailingTruth IsNewsUniversalAbsolutesResponseObjectivesCompromiseWitnessRootedMinistryBiblicalEngagingGood NewsExclusiveSystematicThoroughBackboneUnifiedPostmodernismPostmodern Author:Douglas Groothuis