from The New York Times
Brooklyn Museum, Newly Refurbished, Seeks an Audience
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The re-opening - and re-positioning - of the Brooklyn Museum (formerly the Brooklyn Museum of Art) in New York has raised concerns that it might become: "a palace of popular culture rather than a place to see art." It is indeed a thin line to thread between being relevant and being low-brow. The former is increasingly being recognised as an essential component of a museum's function within a community. The latter is surely downright patronising and can be considered as a wanton waste of public resources. But who is to say?