Senator Joseph Bruno, the majority leader, says he thinks visitors should devote time to the Capitol.
Part of the premise of the institute is that visitors will devote time to it: "When you arrive," Ms. Abramovic said, "you have to sign a contract that you will stay a minimum of six hours".
Having previously extolled the virtues of compact exhibitions that allow the visitor to devote sustained scrutiny to each object, I've been reminded of the main problem of a popular show with small items.
The 10-year-old art fair, expected to attract about 65,000 visitors this year, is devoted to selling the work of living contemporary artists.
Along with the cultural elite of Europe and America came less elevated visitors, and Christiansen devotes an entire chapter to the craze for foreign "spirit-rappers," the spiritualists, mediums, psychics and soothsayers who played on Victorian credulity by shifting furniture, appearing to float around the room and summoning up the dead.
Clicking on the links for the expert reports takes visitors to webpages devoted solely to those respective topics.
Travel digests regularly devote pages to what visitors should sample.
Last week, Belfast staked its claim with the definitively named Titanic – a striking new visitor attraction entirely devoted to the ship and its story.
New York's Vietnam memorial, tucked between two office buildings, doesn't get many visitors, even on days devoted to remembering America's war dead.
The United States: In Toronto, there was a lot of discussion of the fiscal cliff and how it has politicized the U.S. economic outlook — one of the American visitors, a leading financier, devoted most of his presentation on the U.S. economy to the politics of the Beltway.
