the world is a museum of obsessions https://t.co/OiQEmX8neR
It is notable that very large collections of art, and all the world’s major museums, are the work of the very rich or of societies during strongly nationalistic periods. All the principal museums in New York, for example, are associated with the names of the famously rich: Carnegie, Frick, Rockefeller, Guggenheim, Whitney, Morgan, Lehman. Such muse
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a place where the grand compulsion of archiving, from wherever it might arrive, can and will be attuned to — and, crucially, shared.
curation as aesthetic expression
Art, as Bloch said, is a laboratory of possibilities. Indeed, other worlds become possible as and insofar as we curiously reformulate the networks in our heads—and in our hearts.