WHEN SMALL MUSEUMS TRY TO BE BIG

“Art means less to people than it used to. Hype means so much more. People go to museums to be entertained, not to be moved. We no longer believe in putting intellectual effort into our museum experiences. We demand them on a plate. Prefabricated. Fast. These are conditions in which grandeur and largeness play better than intimacy and compactness. In our national museum-going, we have regressed to the stage where we like things to be written out in capitals.” – The Sunday Times (UK)