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I remember hearing about research in contemporary/modern art  
exhibitions where the principal affective response to the experience  
was a widespread sense of inadequacy stemming from the visitors'  
inability to "get" the art.  Anecdotally, I find that the comments I  
overhear at MOMA and PS, etc support this.

Eric Siegel
esiegel at nyscience dot org



On Nov 13, 2007, at 9:23 AM, Beryl Rosenthal wrote:

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> Ouch.  Sounds punitive.  What a way to kill interest.
> Beryl
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>> Hello museum flunking afficionados,
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>> Many years ago, Chandler Screven told me of a "science center" -  
>> perhaps
>> more akin to a  visitor center - that he worked on, for the Tennessee
>> Valley Authority.  They had a quiz program to see how much  
>> visitors had
>> learned in the galleries.  If the visitor's score was high enough,  
>> they
>> could go to the gift shop and receive a free gift.  If they didn't  
>> have a
>> high enough score ...............
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>> I suggested to Chandler that they had succeded in making a flunkable
>> museum, but he disagreed.
>>
>> I wonder if anyone else has a similar rewardable - or flunkable -  
>> test.
>>
>> Peter Anderson
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