Meditations in an Emergency

Meditations in an Emergency

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Tombstones

Tombstones

Low mind, high art

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Rosecrans Baldwin
Aug 07, 2021
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Artwork captions are some of the few delimited areas in a museum that are consistently crap. The little white cards stuck next to a painting that try to tell you something about what you’re standing there to see, that err to the pompous, obtuse, practically cynical in how little they manage to say with so many obscure words. Museums have high status, th…

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