Please Go Watch This Video As Its A Very Nice Guide To Whats Happening In The Museum World Right Now!

Please go watch this video as it’s a very nice guide to what’s happening in the museum world right now!

Just to add: if we were to judge the capability of a country to take care of art based on their history, France and England would be the least capable. You mean the countries that during their revolutions got all their medieval art destroyed and the nobles did nothing about it because they only cared about themselves?? France?? You mean the country in which a noble sold an abbey to a German noble that took it apart piece by piece in order to fucking sell the bricks??

Yeah, sure.

its three am* and I can't sleep so I am watching youtube videos on the couch with my pup when I come across this;

it's a month old but John Oliver geo-locks his youtube videos so it only became available to me a few days ago at most.

It is a great examination of art movement, repatriation, and big old museums inability to get over themselves. I highly recommend watching it. The hardest part for me, as a museum person, was right at the end when they were showing the 'French Loot', specifically the unstretched painting. Because, yeah, I'm dealing with a lot of shitty stored art at the moment, even though my museum doesn't have much to do with repatriation etc, it still hit close to home.

unfortunately the only cc is auto-generated which blows.

*like most things on this page, it has been queued for a better time in the morning

You do.

It’s November and I don’t have a girlfriend? *scoffs* homophobic.

I love you moss I love you mushrooms I love you morning dew I love you trees I love you rain I love you crows I love you crunchy leaves I love you autumn I love you nature

still thinking about how donna tartt executed the concept of having no moral binary in her characters so well. when you first read the secret history your desire is to place henry, francis, and camillia in the right. and that would work, except that henry is so obessed with the aesthetic of perfection and of the intellectual that he has lost his moral compass altogether. francis is so attached to his wealthy, comfortable lifestyle that he'd rather sacrifice his own well-being and desire in order to maintain it. camilla knows the implications of the wrongdoing that she and the others have committed, but she doesn't change her behavior or try to solve the situation, because that would disrupt the order she is trying her hardest to maintain. ultimately, they are all iredeemable, both for their own faults and for their participation in bunny's murder, and that's exactly what makes the novel as thematically nuanced as it is.