Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.
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When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.Robert Smithson
The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.
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Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.
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Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
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Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.
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