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And he wrote a similar one when NYSCI opened our new wing in 2004.  

http://nyti.ms/dxaeAu

I liked the article he wrote about us, as he focused on two exhibitions that I was particularly passionate about, Connections and Mathematica.  I thought his points were valid, if not very well supported.  I am delighted to have someone writing about science centers and science museums in the Times, so that is a net positive.  There's something in his tone that bugs me, he doesn't really know much but is clearly very used to passing judgements and having those judgements honored.  Imagine what it would do to a person to be Cultural Critic at Large for the New York Times or whatever his title is.  You have to grease his ears to get him in the door as a friend of mine used to say about his boss.



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On Apr 1, 2010, at 2:14 PM, Chuck Howarth wrote:

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> Ed Rothstein wrote another in the NY Times last November on a similar theme, comparing the new Cal Academy to the Exploratorium.  
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> He says of the Exploratorium, "Oppenheimer created a palace of experiments, a conceptual playground in which it is impossible not to be engaged, amazed, frustrated or amused. You learn principles but are not told how you must use them. You are given a sense of interconnected phenomena, but are not directed to behave in a certain way. You are forced to think in the middle of play."
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/arts/design/04museum.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Exploratorium&st=cse
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>> I'm interested in reactions & comments to this NY Times article mentioned in
>> latest ASTC Scans.
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>> The Thrill of Science, Tamed by Agendas
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/arts/artsspecial/18SCIENCE.html?sq=museums
>> %20special%20section&st=cse&scp=2&adxnnlx=1270036850-sM/C0CWl7aQLLyiRfjunYA&
>> pagewanted=all
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>> 
>> Dana
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