While coming from my Yellowstone trip, I had several hours to kill in downtown Chicago. So like any art museums enthusiast would do I checked out trip advisors “one of the best museums in the world”, The art institute of Chicago. Heavily populated on a Sunday afternoon with a $30 admission fee, I found it hard to believe that art museums are declining worldwide.
Our Society has become so obsessed with revolutionizing and tearing down economical, gender role, political structures. Perhaps it has warped our view of the past.
A past more simple with less technological distractions, a past where creation relied upon the hands and not just the mind like today.
As discussed in our previous article Train rides are also a threat in this digital age. It seems as if an activity demands one to delay instant gratification is primitive, irrelevant, social media enable access to talented artist. With a click of a button without a $30 admission fees. Seems somewhat logical?. On the surface yes, But art museums is a misleading title.
The meaning behind the art in the description gives us a history lesson on the time period in which it was created. The combination of different chemical elements, colors coupled with its practical usage gives us the science behind the art. Least we do not forget religious, spiritual connotations, as well. Art museums are rarely just art.
Sure digitization gives us ease and comfort to create. However, the artist creation loses its rawness which is what gravitates humans to art in the first place.
A.I. digitation gives us results and serves practical relevancy. But the missing link is the connection to it’s creator which is the human element. We can admire any creation but it’s something about the human element involved within it that subconsciously speaks to our soul. The fact that art museums attendances are down doesn’t discredit this. It just proves were becoming more slaves to instant gratification.
Maybe the ease of access to beauty and art causes us to take it for granted. The average human rarely appreciates anything that comes with no/low cost. Will charging for pictures of art work via online for those unable to attend help museums?
The more society focuses on the mistakes of the past, the more danger our art museums are of closing. At the same time, museums can’t compromise too much with digitization.
social media doesn’t expand our minds but reaffirms our confirmation bias with other like minded individuals. It’s not a cultural experience because visitors can’t relate, therefore it has no value.How will a revolution become successful in the long term if the preservation of history is erased?
While the victor often writes history, whether we agree with whats kept or not is another debate in of itself. But to disregard art museums as primitive, irrelevant, and boring turns a blind eye into what makes us human in the first place.
In conclusion, if art museums are on the decline, what does this say about our standards of beauty.?
In your opinion why is there a decline in art museum attendances in the U.S.?
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