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ArtOctober 2009 Exhibition note by Marco Grassi On "Time Will Tell: Ethics & Choices in Conservation" at Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. A museum visit can be exhilarating, inspiring, but also, by turns, infuriating or just plain boring. This is particularly true when visiting one of the huge, all-encompassing institutions such as the Metropolitan or the Louvre. Smaller museums—such as the Frick or the Neue Galerie—demand less from us, intellectually and physically. The menu is more limited: the art on display often represents only one culture, one period, or even one medium. Indeed, who could deny the pleasure of a day spent at the Beyeler Foundation in Basel or the Clark Institute in Williamstown? There are, however, museums created in yet another format: those that are of relatively limited size but are also encyclopedic in scope. Two of the best are about an hour’s tr ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 28 October 2009, on page 51 Copyright © 2009 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Exhibition-note-4289
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