It’s a night at the museum indeed! One can only wish it was so charming and fairy-tale-like. Instead of dioramas reanimating themselves to offer a bit of adventure and timeless wisdom, it’s bloodthirsty youth superimposing a bit of empty streetwise posturing in the hallowed halls of high art. The LACMA Museum in Los Angeles holds it’s monthly late-night ‘art-party’ with bands, DJs, and a well-stocked bar.
It begs one question. Are all these monolithic, heavily-endowed museums over-compensating for their decades spent out of touch with that certain all-important demographic, wooing them now in that most shameless manner—throwing a party? It’s a dubious assumption that any event like this is anything other than a drunken melee, a party thrown in a particular big house, with the added illicit thrill that the parents (read, docents) are away. Do you think the artist intended that piece to be viewed upside-down mid-keg-stand?
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