Wanted: Blockbusters That Are Fun

” ‘Educational’ is a wan, dry word to describe what exhibitions — and art — should do. Art should entertain as well as amaze, enthrall, move, and possibly terrify us. And, yes, educate us too. But there is a depressing — rather Gordon Brownian — implication in Nicholas Penny’s stance that we should only go to the National Gallery because it’s good for us.”