With My Own Eyes - by Robert Walrod - Earthly Delights
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On Museum-Going After a Global Pandemic
Still from Vertigo (1958). Some years ago, I visited Munich’s Lenbachhaus, home to an incredible collection of Blaue Reiter paintings. A group of German teenagers continually interrupted my encounters with the Kandinskys and Franz Marcs as they sped through the galleries, taking cell phone pictures of each painting as if they were trying to catch ‘em all. They spent no more than ten seconds on each painting, with the majority of that time devoted to framing the picture on the cell phone screen. Presumably there on a school assignment, they spent almost no time on the act of looking itself.…
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