Rather than fancy restaurants and gimmicky stores, lobbies could host outside organizations to convene and organize. The museum might act as a partner and participant, catalyst, and amplifier. Here, there are no bananas stuck to the wall, but ample meaningful information for an active audience. Guards would protect patrons over property. And during the next protest, lobbies could open up and transform into staging grounds, sanctuary spaces, and broadcasting stations for citizen journalists. — artnet
Architect Florian Idenburg offers alternative uses for boarded up museum fronts in New York City during the social uprising and protests and questions the corporate policies now running the museum's public interface on city's sidewalks.
"Amid the stream of information about systemic racism and demands for societal change filling my Instagram feed, a recent series of posts by my friend Lucie Rebeyrol stood out. She shared images of the glass-enclosed lobbies of three leading New York City museums—the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the New Museum—hermetically boarded up with countless sheets of plywood."
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Maybe Florian missed the looting? It's not like can hire 10 security guards like the Nike store
What looting of the museum shops or something? Their overpriced post-cards or the books that people only browse through to go and order them on Amazon at home? Or that fancy latte or cappuccino? If people would see museums and art institutions as part of their community, if they're open to the public and for the public and not boarded up, they wouldn't be looted...and even if, it's not like they couldn't overcome that. Boarding them up is like a big "fuck you" to the protesters and their cause.
The protesters have no desire to loot nice buildings and their favorite destinations. They prefer to trash immigrant shops and electronic stores--the little Trumpers pretending to be woke.
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