The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations.
They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them.
Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're also civic and social centers.
The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose, to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty.
I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
In college I had to major in something, so I was like, "Okay I like art history, so I will major in that. " I never really had any ambitions to work in museums or anything, though.
In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man
A woman's quest in life should be to find the perfect apartment. And I have found the perfect apartment. The perfect apartment is the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum. With a sofa.
Kitschis one of the major categories of the modern object. Knick-knacks, rustic odds-and-ends, souvenirs, lampshades, and African masks: the kitsch-object is collectively this whole plethora of "trashy," sham or faked objects, this whole museum of junk which proliferates everywhere. . . . Kitsch is the equivalent to the "cliché" in discourse.
One of my major goals is to develop a web of the small Wyoming museums and create a major museum system. There are about eight of these museums, and they are all scattered.
European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.
Freedom is like holding a small bird. If you squeeze it too hard, you will kill it. But if you don't hold it firmly enough, it will fly away. Indeed, freedom can be both fragile and elusive, and so-as the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum so powerfully reminds us-it requires our eternal vigilance, our willingness, our ability, our conviction to stand up for that which we think is right.
Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor. There's no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center.
The line I trace with my feet walking to the museum is more important and more beautiful than the lines I find there hung up on the walls.
It's interesting how as an artist you keep evolving, but if you can get into the contemporary art space, if the works are in institutions and museums, they keep living on and on and on, even if you move to a different space, that work is still operating.
It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money.
I believe profoundly in the importance of museums; I would go as far as to say that you can judge a society by the quality of its museums.
Maybe the museum [of Arts and Design ]needs to follow the advice of its acronym and not be afraid to go a little M. A. D.
I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.
[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.