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“Strange Like a Hobo I Don’t Want to Talk to”: Yelp v. the Museum of Jurassic...
"The Soviet dogs exhibit is slightly interesting"… but the museum is "just annoying" David Wilson’s magnum opus, the Museum of Jurassic Technology, earned him a MacArthur Foundation grant and supplied...
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Yelp Hates on Museums
“This place is ridiculous. Who is the guy who thinks this shit is art? I’d like to meet him, shake his hand and then punch him in the face.” That’s part of a Yelp review of MOCA. I don’t think it’s a...
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Cabinet of Animosities
Critics have heaped praise on the Museum of Jurassic Technology, David Wilson’s relational aesthetics takedown of the authority of museums. Yelp reviewers have been more ambivalent. As I noted in a...
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Why Online Museum Ratings Fail
Which is the better Hammer Museum—the one in L.A. that shows art, or the one in Haines, Alaska, that shows actual hammers? There’s an app for that. Several, in fact. Google and TripAdvisor give higher...
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“It Is Almost Criminal to Call It That”: Yelp Reviews the Museum of Jurassic...
David and Diana Wilson’s Museum of Jurassic Technology continues to draw praise from cultural thought leaders—and one-star reviews from online critics who just don’t get it. A selection of Yelp,...
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The Children’s Museum
Kids love dinosaurs and mummies. Beuys and Kiefer, not so much? The Broad may be rewriting that rule. Yesterday, the downtown museum was packed with parents, children, and infants in strollers. The...
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