LET'S RETHINK

摘要

Perhaps it is no coincidence that the 'grand narratives'of modernity were being dismantled at around the same time as the actually-existing communist Utopia disintegrated. So today, living in a triumphant 'post-ideological' era, perhaps some of us are demanding too much of museums.rnAfter all, it could be that the very concept of 'the museum' is flawed from the beginning. As either a collection arranged to demonstrate a linear history supporting an inevitable present, or a collection of all that is 'good, beautiful and true' in human thought and action, saved (by religious men) from inevitable apocalypse; the museum (like spectacle) always fails.