How have blogs challenged the authority of museum curators?
Yes, to question the absolute authority of museum exhibition as a guide to quality, and to note that the connection between museum exhibition/acquisition and the market is, well, a little queasy-making (we all know museums that have a lot of questionable works that must have seemed a great idea to have collected at the time).
It is intended to be a reference book upon which future explorations of Mr. McQueen's importance may be weighed, so it was important that its imagery convey the authority of the museum, not a fashion magazine.
It entails less equivocation, less democracy, less blurring of the line between commerce and content, and a reassertion of authority on the part of museums, which must restate their convictions about esoteric beauty, the ethical import of aesthetics and the special, if intangible, power of the things they possess.
Free Housed in a high Victorian red-brick university building, this museum has a wonderfully eclectic collection, typical of England's larger university and local authority funded museums.
It is a museum about the origin of museums.
Richard Meier, the Getty Centre's architect, is one of the few prominent members of his profession not currently working on a major museum.Culture clashThe coming together of museum authorities and architects is not always without friction.
Even the architecture of the Duveen gallery - a 1930s mausoleum of a place - speaks of authority and the museum.
Once they recognize the authority of science, though, young-earth creationists must then argue, against libraries and labs and museum collections full of evidence, that it substantiates their essentially unscientific claims.
Next, museums should ban, one by one, all the contemporary intrusions that disrupt the authority of great art, from photography to loudmouthed tour guides.
