Times art expert compares pop-culture and critical views
/ Courtesy of New York Public Library "We're all little Caesars expecting tribute, expecting exhibitions that come to us 50 [masterpieces] at a time," Michael Kimmelman said during his lecture entitled "From Wonder Cabinet to Department Store: Thoughts on the American Museum" at the Loew Auditorium last Friday evening. The head art critic of the New York Times and former Dartmouth professor delivered an energetic commentary on the origin and destiny of the museum in American society. Full of high-strung denunciations of museums around the world in typical art critic fashion, Kimmelman's comedic barrage of criticisms ultimately revealed something deeper about the philosophy of art in American society. He kicked off the lecture with a virtual tour (via PowerPoint) of the Roman galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
















