Comments on: Should the public have a say in what goes into museums?

By: Hulu Crnovi

Hulu Crnovi — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:12:43 +0000

We think that professionals and artists should be the main group of people to organise exhibitions. However people should have a chance to share their ideas with museums and galleries because they might get some good ideas from this and get more people to come to galleries.

By: ?

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:46:32 +0000

Art is another comfortable form of creative communication, another escapism (whether we like it or not). It is an outpouring of humanity’s need to create, and is certainly not the ‘source of life’ (or a lot of people I know would be dead). There is a huge deal of subjectivity in art; we the public and especially us “artists” enjoy this, due to it giving us a level of control about what we see and believe art is saying. We enjoy art’s mysteries but not the truth, galleries but not reality. Is ‘art’ going to change the world? Is making ‘art’ going to change the world? Is it actually effective?…Or is it’s comfort just going to help you?

By: Abbie Phillips

Abbie Phillips — Sat, 14 May 2011 19:15:15 +0000

I think a more pertinent thing to question would be, if public opinion is shaped by the choice of curators, and if so, does this ultimately decide what we would like to see more of; would our choices differ from those of a professional?

By: art lust

art lust — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:07:12 +0000

Museum’s have at their core dual functions of education/ service to the public and then scholarship/preservation of culture. These functions are inextricably linked. And, so a relationship between the understanding the visitors’ desires and the operations of the museum is essential. The issue though lies in what this relationship is. Visitors don’t have the training to weigh in on how artworks are best preserved. Visitors should weigh in from their core competency–their experience with being in the museum and with the museum’s collection. So, rather than curate a show, they should weigh in on what they understood, enjoyed, disliked to make the next show more visitor accessible.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:32:23 +0000

As much as what I am about to say seems like sitting on a fence, it’s a bloody good fence! Having a fair mixture between the two allows for two sorts of interactions in an exhibitory space: one, pro-democratic, but which might show the ebbing of public taste as something to be shown; two, the critical selection of ‘professional’ and highly knowledgeable curators to introduce the new art that might be draw passion, whether it be scorn, hatred or the swoon – that is the art that no one would pick but would be gloriously successful.