My Sweet Nothing » Museums http://www.mysweetnothing.com an open (note)book about art and language Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:09:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Jack Smith on Museums http://www.mysweetnothing.com/2009/11/248682186/ http://www.mysweetnothing.com/2009/11/248682186/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:49:35 +0000 Lisa http://mysweetnothing.tumblr.com/post/248682186 As it is, the museums give nothing. They pretend to give you art and then take it away after 2 or 3 weeks. This is a disgusting performance. When you think that art could be free. Everything should be free and it could begin with art.
[He points at a museum outside the frame.]
Make that goddamn place open til midnight! Or put something interesting in it and keep it open until 5 in the morning!

—Jack Smith, from “Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis”

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