Are Museums Intimidating? First Impressions Count

…but I’d wager that the more appropriate adjectives for describing what reluctant museum-goers feel about museums include “boring,” “bewildering,” and “confusing,” because there isn’t enough way-finding information.

What is your experience of entering a large museum for the first time?

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Fondation le Corbusier / Villa la Roche – A Lovely Walk in the 16th in Paris

 

 

 

La Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, France (1950)

Einstein understands le Corbusier.

As one turns from

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Paul Schimmel and Sanford Biggers – Experience or Interpretation?

The artificial construction people make is that painting is not intellectual, and does not involve much thinking, but involves psychic or subconscious pressures which are released through the act of painting. But I think painting like mine shows obvious kinds of hesitation and reworking which people associate with thought.                                                                          — Jasper Johns

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Robert Smithson’s Dream Come True – In a Quarry Hotel in Shanghai?

Land Art in the form of a hotel?

More than that – it’s also an aquatic park, aquarium, rock climber’s haven… not to mention extreme sports fanatics’ playground. Best of all, all these will provide great entertainment for the hotel guests on their balcony, win-win, I imagine.

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