Monday, October 5, 2009

The Pinky Show: We Love Museums...Do Museums Love Us Back?


This episode of The Pinky Show is hilarious. A pretty cynical, irreverent view of museum work, but worth considering; sometimes it's important to have some cartoon cats cut through the BS.

Favorite Part:

"Blank walls are good so that the visitors won't have to deal with so much context or history.

Then you put a small label next to the object...Make sure the lettering on the labels is very tidy and sharp, and also only use language that sounds academic, otherwise the authority-effect won't be so convincing.

That's the formula: blank walls + nice tidy labels + maybe even shining a light on the object = guaranteed to make any object look extremely important."
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  1. CarolynOctober 7, 2009 at 8:16 AM

    hilarious!..poor pinky gets stuffed.
    I liked the part on value and why is "this ugly painting" in a museum? who gets to decide? hopefully museum staff are becoming more aware of their responsibilities to the public and are breaking away from the traditional academic stand point. who would want to go to the museum kim went to?

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