Are Museums Now Trapped In The Exhibition-Industrial Complex?

Blake Gopnik: “In Tokyo, 758,266 people rush to see the treasures of Holland’s Mauritshuis museum; in New York, 605,586 people view the photos of Cindy Sherman, by Cindy Sherman … these are just a few of the staggering attendance figures for recent exhibitions. Could there be any better sign of the health of our museums? Unless we’re seeing symptoms of florid illness.”