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• American museums have become cautious, because it is very hard to get money to do something different or controversial.

  Pontus Hulten

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Museums, Controversial

• Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people’s lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.

  Zaha Hadid

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Museums, Architectural

• There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.

  Zaha Hadid

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Crowded, Museums

• I don’t particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.

  Zaha Hadid

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Furniture, Museums

• Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It’s more like going to a Jacuzzi.

  Hans Haacke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Museums, Normally

• When the purse strings tighten up at museums, the institutions usually cut back and cancel shows. That’s exactly the wrong reaction. In fact, now is a good time for them to loosen up – a chance to breathe and experiment a little – and go for the juicy solution lurking in their own basements.

  Jerry Saltz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Strings, Museums

• The art world is molting – some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.

  Jerry Saltz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Museums, Closing

• Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.

  Jerry Saltz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Museums, Outside

• Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos, eating, hanging out, things that make noise – all are now the norm, often edging out much else.

  Jerry Saltz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Museums, Invites

• I don’t plan out my visits rigorously, but I do have a list of about 125 New York galleries, alternative spaces, museums, and so forth that I visit regularly. That’s the closest thing I have to a strategy: I go to a lot of places, many that artists don’t visit.

  Jerry Saltz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in New York, Museums

• Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools – only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.

  Jerry Saltz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Museums, Cool

• Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures.

  George Segal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Precious, Property, Museums

• It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

  George Santayana

  Topics in America, Art

  Tags in Museums, Impotent

• The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.

  Richard Stengel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Number, Corporate, Museums

• I love doing normal things – movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths – that’s a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

  Christina Aguilera

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Museums, Friends, Relaxation

• I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

  Steven Wright

  Tags in Museums, Statues

• Museums, I love museums.

  Tony Randall

  Tags in Museums

• 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.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Tags in Major, Scattered, Museums