Comments on: More Musings on Museum Building Booms

By: Dodie Bellamy

Dodie Bellamy — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:54:46 +0000

Great post, Renny. It feels so much in resonance with my Mission School post, the institution not the end all, but a dot in a much larger community/creative constellation.

By: Anne Walsh

Anne Walsh — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:23:09 +0000

Thanks for this, Renny.

By: Frank Lostaunau

Frank Lostaunau — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:45:37 +0000

What would you pay for world class tuna? http://hypercurio.us/2010/01/06/what-would-you-pay-for-world-class-tuna/

yum yum…

By: Nancy

Nancy — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:21:28 +0000

I think that the phrase “world class” has been overused and misused. I DO think that you can point out museums that have world class collections – The Louvre, The British Museum, The Met, etc. But then, there is a lot of sloppy reporting in every form of journalism and it debases meaning.

By: Tessa DeCarlo

Tessa DeCarlo — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:18:33 +0000

When we lived in Napa we heard “world class” continually applied to wines, restaurants, artists, social events, and of course the Napa Valley itself. We decided that “world class” meant “provincial,” because anyone who yearns for the label “world class” thereby admits it doesn’t apply. When was the last time someone called New York a “world class” city, or Paris a “world class” art venue? Renny is 100% right–the term expresses a pecking-order, all-buzz-no-content state of mind. But that is the state of mind the world around us often seems to be dragging us into, 24 hours a day.