AN EVEN KEEL
On 12/12/12, the very day a quirk in the Mayan calendar suppos edly foretold as the end of the world (according to clearly unfounded rumors), my wife and I happened to take one of our granddaugh ters to the Museum of Modern Art. A budding artist, she was keen to see the offerings of that famous New York City museum.
Among the first displays to greet us on entering the first gal lery at MoMA were two industrial-sized vacuum cleaners, spotless white three-wheeled cylinders with neat pin-striping. They were stacked one atop the other encased in Plexiglas cubes, the neon lights beneath each making them gleam. Our granddaughter was not impressed; she was eager to see Van Gogh's Starry Night in a gallery several floors above.
Just the night before, the main curator at MoMA had convened an evening on the theme of "attention and distraction." The fo- cusin' g of attention holds the key to museum displays: the frames around the art announce where we should look. Those glass cubes and neon lights directed our attention here, toward the sparkling vacuum cleaners, and away from there-whatever else was in the gallery.
AN EVEN KEEL
On 12/12/12, the very day a quirk in the Mayan calendar suppos edly foretold as the end of the world (according to clearly unfounded rumors), my wife and I happened to take one of our granddaugh ters to the Museum of Modern Art. A budding artist, she was keen to see the offerings of that famous New York City museum.
Among the first displays to greet us on entering the first gal lery at MoMA were two industrial-sized vacuum cleaners, spotless white three-wheeled cylinders with neat pin-striping. They were stacked one atop the other encased in Plexiglas cubes, the neon lights beneath each making them gleam. Our granddaughter was not impressed; she was eager to see Van Gogh's Starry Night in a gallery several floors above.
Just the night before, the main curator at MoMA had convened an evening on the theme of "attention and distraction." The fo- cusin' g of attention holds the key to museum displays: the frames around the art announce where we should look. Those glass cubes and neon lights directed our attention here, toward the sparkling vacuum cleaners, and away from there-whatever else was in the gallery.
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