End Of The Unique Museum?

“Over the past 15 or so years, some of the most original and idiosyncratic art institutions in the country — the Barnes, the ‘Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, Calif., and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston — have embarked on major expansions to modernize (and in some cases, to generate more revenue), significantly transforming their identities.”

Movie Critics Changing Their Minds?: New York Times‘s Chief Film Critics Discuss

Manohla Dargis: “My reviews are a record of what I thought at a given moment. What changes with repeat viewings is how I love a movie, the intensity of that love, what I know about it (what I know about myself), and where I’m at in my life.” A.O. Scott: “I don’t see much point in publicly second-guessing myself. I’d prefer to have readers be the judges of what I got right or wrong. And, of course, the ultimate second-guesser is history.”