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Chris Cater is a cartoonist and illustrator located in NYC. He graduated from the University of Connecticut with a BFA in illustration. Chris currently works at Utrecht Art Supplies on West 23rd Street,... More by Chris Cater
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The institution acquired the bust from a Swiss art dealer who has been linked with the looted antiquities trade at other US museums.
For the museums in Houston, the air-conditioning slice is more like 75%. And there is another reason that should be added–checking out attractive persons in revealing summer clothes.
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Never never because “art is culturally important”! That’s like enjoying a beautiful meal because “food is necessary for survival.”
Tourism and a/c are nice, but I mostly go because I get pleasure from looking at art. And museums are lovely urbane spaces full of ideas, some bad and some good. It’s a pleasurable stimulation of the mind and the senses.
wouldnt that fall under culturally important
And if you wait long enough, all those people will pass by and you’ll have some private time to spend with your favorite paintings and sculptures.
never thought about air-conditioning as a reason to go to the museum 🙂 but I believe it could be one!
I’m much less likely to get a bed sunburn in an art museum than most other places I’d be likely to visit in the summer.
As you can see at the link below, some museums only advertise that they have air conditioning, completely forgetting they have art and history too.
http://peabodyslament.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/maybe-museums-should-strive-to-be-a-little-more/
T.H. Gray, Director-Curator
American Hysterical Society
http://peabodyslament.wordpress.com/
I go to be mesmerized.
Lol, art isn’t culturally important anymore. I spent the day at the Met because it’s air conditioned, you can pay basically nothing, and it was hot as fuck outside.