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More art museum blockbusters are what’s needed


by Jerome Weeks 2 Apr 2008 1:06 PM

It’s an unusual position for an art critic to take. But Martin Gayford believes that the problem with many blockbusters — as opposed to the more educational, more serious explorations of a museum’s permanent collection or of out-of-the-way topics — is the kind of “fat, popular” blockbusters museums have been producing: “Our institutions also ought to […]

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It’s an unusual position for an art critic to take. But Martin Gayford believes that the problem with many blockbusters — as opposed to the more educational, more serious explorations of a museum’s permanent collection or of out-of-the-way topics — is the kind of “fat, popular” blockbusters museums have been producing: “Our institutions also ought to provide what the public doesn’t yet know it likes.”

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