Wednesday, June 14, 2017

How Mr. Bean Nailed The Behavior Of American Museum Audiences

"If the movie Bean has taught us anything (and what hasn't it taught us really?), it's that American museums and the museum-going public will line up, go out of its way, to view something spectacular, whether there's much in the way of educational value." Noah Charney (who cops to similar behavior himself) talks with some curators about "what you as a curator do when the material in your collection is more interesting than spectacular."



Article source here:Arts Journal

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