Some facts of the two articles are much similar-both articles speculate that museums today are in a process of expanding it's size for various reasons, like to introduce more artists and their artworks thus atrracting more people and tourists. However, they point out that expansion of museums may sound impressive, but there are several negative aftermath to the renovation- it may cause the boards and managers to pay not much attention to important, but small details like maintaining the artworks or helping the visitors fully understand the theme and their unique meaning. Now that new modern architecture and style are common and available, the art museumss will tend to care too much about the outer appearance(result of centralization on profit) than to really focus on the idea of inner beauty.
The future of museums doesn't seem stable; recently, a new virtual art museum is constructing it's way to the world of URL, which situates the museums in the verge of extinction. Seeing the new technology stepping into the classical world of art brings out questions and issues from a group of people concerned about the idea of authenticity. When trying to admire an artwork through digital just doesn't look the same, as much people do agree-which may be the result of the artwork's every little morsals of colors and details converting to mere digits of pixels-or the very presence of the artists who created it are lost. In that sense, museums are essential in expiriencing the real art work and finding the truth through them.
Though it might be that museums are damned in the near future by that wonderful term, technology, there still is hope for some other types of museums-many will be those that fits the general public's interests.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
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