In attempting to increase audience size, is style being promoted over substance?

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Submitted by C. Ikehara, Dec 13, 2006 22:52

The violinist Heifetz said: - Can you appreciate music without playing it? Yes, you can. You can appreciate baseball without playing it. Many people attend a football game merely for the crowd, the excitement, the color. Is Mr. Lehman trying to change the museum experience into something that will appeal to the crowd because of its style (e.g., excitement and color) as opposed to its substance? Is he becoming the Warhol of the museum world as he creates a larger audience that is "...now a different public -- larger, to be sure, but less serious, less introspective, less willing or able to distinguish between achievement and its trashy simulacrum"?:

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The violinist Heifetz said: - Can you appreciate music without playing it? Yes, you can. You can appreciate baseball without playing...	C. Ikehara	Dec 13, 2006 22:52
Instead of forming opinions about the Brooklyn Museum based on things you read on this web site and others, trying... [MORE]	Augustus Graham	Nov 22, 2006 07:36
Of course there are multiple ways of looking at art, and multiple ways of presenting it. And, of course, some... [MORE]	Ricardo Fernández	Nov 22, 2006 15:50
Despite living in New York for three years while in graduate school, the only time I visited the out-of-the-way Brooklyn... [MORE]	Ricardo Fernández	Nov 21, 2006 11:12
I visited the Brooklyn Museum once since I relocated in Brooklyn some eight years ago. Later, during Mayor Giuliani's tenure;... [MORE]	Nancy Joyce Jancourtz	Nov 20, 2006 12:58
"Art is a portrayal of beauty--to my way of thinking..." Alas, your way of thinking is deeply flawed, narrowminded and... [MORE]	Arthur Eggles	Nov 20, 2006 14:05
If the museums need to increase the number of their visitors, why don't they make themselves transportation friendly? Why don't... [MORE]	J. Reynolds	Nov 20, 2006 09:36

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