Ebook: Museum legs: fatigue and hope in the face of art

Museum Legs -- First Friday -- Liederkranz -- The insulated judiciary -- On the origins -- Ladies who launch -- Revenge of the Homunculus -- On boredom -- Why museums matter -- Exhibitionism and appreciation -- Making copies -- Alfred Barr got fired: Art museums as art projects -- Women in fancy sweatshirts.;Why do people get bored and tired in art museums and why does that matter? Author Whitaker writes in this humorous and incisive collection of essays, museums matter for reasons that have less to do with art as we know it and more to do with business, politics, and the age-old question of how to live--back cover.