“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
“Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea that culture is only opera houses or theatres. Culture is your entire life around you: toilets, the bus, the kerb or the dump where you drag your waste. Culture has come to mean the arts, but it’s swimming pools as well.” IfsWantWellsMeanArtIdeasSeemsCultureHouseDesignWasteTheatreMuseumsBusSwimmingPoolOperaDragToiletsBorrowedDumpSwimming PoolOpera House Author:Thomas Heatherwick
“People today read less, take fewer museum trips, and attend fewer concerts. Is that because these activities aren't as fun? The decline... can be traced, at least in part, to unconscious stimuli that make us live faster.” PeopleTodayCultureFunActivityFasterUnconsciousMuseumsConcertsFewerDeclineStimulus Book:Wait: The useful art of procrastination Source: Wait: The useful art of procrastination
“The confusion of spirit and body is quite understandable in a culture where spirit is concretized in magnificent skyscrapers, where cathedrals have become museums for tourists, where woman-flesh-devil are associated, and nature is raped for any deplorable excuse. Dieting with fierce will-power is the masculine route; dieting with love of her own nature is the feminine. Her only real hope is to care for her own body and experience it as the vessel through which her Self may be born.” MayRealSelfBodyCareSpiritCultureBornDevilExcuseFleshConfusionFeminineMuseumsFierceMagnificentRoutesMasculineVesselTouristsWill PowerCathedralsDietingSkyscraper Author:Marion Woodman
“The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force.” CultureForceCenturyUniqueIndiaAttractiveMuseumsMonumentMajesticDelhiMumbaiHistory And Culture Author:Vladimir Putin
“The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a frame, that they call sculpture. And then there are spectators. with their scorecards, rooting for culture. And spectators of the spectators, looking for love's introduction. And art students taking notes. And old women trying to remember the past. And old men with too much to forget. And tourists, thinking that a museum represents a city. And loafers so poor, they study their soberness here.” ThinkingMenTryingKindArtPastRememberCultureForgetInterestingPoorCitiesStudyToo MuchStudentsPaintingNotesAll KindsOld ManMuseumsThickSculptureSpectatorsIntroductionInteresting ThingsTouristsOld WomanLooking For LoveRemembering The PastLoafersArt Students Author:Marvin L. Cohen
“Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.” ArtSelfFormCultureSelf EsteemIncreaseUniversityEsteemMuseumsDumbing Down Author:Denis Dutton