New Wave art was the rage of the eighties. Now it's exhibited in oldies-but-goodies museums, usually in black-and-pink frames.
It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.
the moon is just another kind of clock
I sometimes go and sit there. it is my museum of broken things.
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.
The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.
Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it.
Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.
When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.
Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.
Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
Another glorious feature of many modern science museums is a movie theater showing IMAX or OMNIMAX films. In some cases the screen is ten stories tall and wraps around you. The Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museu, the popular museum on Earth, ha...
The ring which you are holding, my friend, is identical to that one. I had it cut according to the model of the king's ring, and damascened in Spain. The original is still in the Escorial; it would have been pleasant to steal it, for I easily acquire...
Where exactly does it come from, I’d like to know, this ineradicable attitude of superiority toward the past? This stubbornly dumb, can’t-kill-it-with-an-ax conviction that we, the now, critically and categorically know better than they, the past...
I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.
And I grew up watching all the British ones so when you hear that from an early age, it makes it much easier than you guys who don't grow up with Australian television or British television.
There is an insuperable problem about introducing immigrants to British values. There are no British values. Nor are there any Serbian or Peruvian values. No nation has a monopoly on fairness and decency, justice and humanity.
The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.
British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.
