http://arthistorynewsletter.com/blog/?p=1770 News for Art Historians Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:57:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://arthistorynewsletter.com/blog/?p=1770&cpage=1#comment-138791 Jon Lackman Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:38:35 +0000 http://arthistorynewsletter.com/blog/?p=1770#comment-138791 In a <em>Chronicle</em> column, Michael Ruse <a target="_blank" href="http://chronicle.com/blogPost/A-Lament-for-the-Humanities/24734/" rel="nofollow">offers</a> a defense for those of us in the humanities: "we are a lot cheaper than the sciences." But he doesn't think that argument will get us very far. He argues (among other things) that art museums such as Washington's NGA will need to figure out how to thrill schoolchildren as well as science museums do. The National Gallery is, he says, a mausoleum. "Nary a kid to be seen ... all of those little Americans [visiting D.C.] are going to have their minds filled with the excitement of science and technology, and the other side to human learning and experience won’t have had a look in." (Link via <a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/collegeart" rel="nofollow">Chris Howard</a>.) In a Chronicle column, Michael Ruse offers a defense for those of us in the humanities: “we are a lot cheaper than the sciences.” But he doesn’t think that argument will get us very far. He argues (among other things) that art museums such as Washington’s NGA will need to figure out how to thrill schoolchildren as well as science museums do. The National Gallery is, he says, a mausoleum. “Nary a kid to be seen … all of those little Americans [visiting D.C.] are going to have their minds filled with the excitement of science and technology, and the other side to human learning and experience won’t have had a look in.” (Link via Chris Howard.)

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