The Easel

Archives: Hal Foster

6th June 2015

After the White Cube

Contemporary public galleries are tending to be ever more grand, with designs that sometimes shout louder than the art they house. Is their core purpose still clear?.Should such galleries consider themselves places of popular entertainment rather than art scholarship? The risk of excessive size is that “… more than the viewer, it is the museum itself that the museum seeks to activate.”
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