what is culture?

If museums don’t let more of the world in soon, soon the world will let fewer museums in. - Jerry Saltz

"Besides, we do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant. Therein is our problem, for television is at its most trivial and, therefore, most dangerous when its aspirations are high, when it presents itself as a carrier of important cultural conversations. The irony here is that this is wha