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She likes teaching economic theory to artists--as compiled in the booklet Business School for Artists--and, conversely, painting and art history to businesspeople. Originally from the South, she now divides her time between New York and London. This is her first book. Her drawings and paintings are held in collections in the United States and Uni

• Title : Museum Legs
• Author : Amy Whitaker
• Rating : 4.67 (435 Vote)
• Publish : 2016-2-14
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 101 Pages
• Asin : B0034XRT2W
• Language :

She likes teaching economic theory to artists--as compiled in the booklet Business School for Artists--and, conversely, painting and art history to businesspeople. Originally from the South, she now divides her time between New York and London. This is her first book. Her drawings and paintings are held in collections in the United States and United Kingdom. She has worked at the Guggenheim, MoMA and the Tate, and for a well-known artist and a well-known hedge fund.

. Her first degree from Williams College is in political science and studio art. Amy Whitaker has an MBA from Yale and an MFA in painting from the Shade. regulatory agencies at Yale and in legal research at Harvard. She has worked as an economics fellow studying U.S. Her work has appeared previously in the British journal Architectural Design and in the New York Times

SinceWhitaker worked at MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art) in New York andthe Tate in London, that's to be expected. Give yourself a quiet place to sit and timeto think, and you'll be rewarded for it.. She'dlikely be uncomfortable with labeling an art museum as a business.And, she worries that when the price of admission to an art museumor an exhibition at one becomes more than negligible, then thevisitor's experience becomes an economic transaction, one in whichthe visitor is concerned about getting entertainment value forthe money more than with having an experience of and with artthat enriches and expands her/his life.And, this issue is becoming more significant, as is everything thatinvolves money, during the economic recession, when support for artand art museums shrinks. Some explanations that she gives aretoo complex or too vague for me to "get". If you get the chance, you should also try and see Amy on her book tour!. And, you may as well get used toit, because for peopl

Maybe the great age of museums will yet be a great age of creativity and hopeful possibility in everyday life.. Museum Legs--taken from a term for art fatigue--starts with a question: Why do people get bored and tired in art museums and why does that matter? As Whitaker writes in this humorous and incisive collection of essays, museums matter for reasons that have less to do with art as we know it and more to do with business, politics, and the age-old question of how to live. If you’ve ever considered going to an art museum and then thought, errr, I’ll do something else If you’ve ever arrived at one and left a little glazed and confused If you’ve ever thought, I might read an eight-page article about art museums but not a whole book Then this is your story

--Jonathan Zittrain, author of The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It. Her essays are as captivating as the artworks they describe. --Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on HappinessIt is so extraordinary to ask these simple questions and to have the courage to look for answers. She explains how we might reattain our sense of wonder, and how museums might rediscover their essence: relating to patrons without being patronizing, and sustaining themselves without selling out. Whitaker is the perfect docent--wise, wry, and engaging. Museums would be a better place to visit if they questioned themselves as Whitaker does --Alfredo Jaar, artistAmy Whitaker's sparkling meditations on the museum are both delightful and pressing