A Grand Gallery Rehang, Painting by Painting
The museum is reinstalling its most famous corridor in public view, one wall a week, with curators narrating the choices.
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The museum is reinstalling its most famous corridor in public view, one wall a week, with curators narrating the choices.
Instead of hiding its conservation lab in the basement, the museum has made it the main exhibit — glass walls, live narration, mistakes and all.
Free lunchtime rehearsals and open backstage corridors are pulling in audiences the evening programme never reached.
Drills, sewing machines, telescopes, a surprisingly contested waffle iron: inside the “library of things” movement’s unlikely rise.
Dynamic pricing filled the balconies and emptied the goodwill. Now producers are testing something more radical: predictability.
Art schools can’t buy presses fast enough as a generation raised on screens falls for the slowest medium there is.