02-07-2026 03:20 via artsjournal.com

When Ice Cream Beats the Vermeers

Good Morning,The Museum of Ice Cream and its cousin the Museum of Balloons are printing money while traditional museums count their deficits (The New York Times). The lesson isn’t that audiences got dumber, it’s that they’ll pay handsomely for an experience they can photograph, and a Rothko isn’t sexy enough for TikTok. Ah, the Selfie Generation.Traditional institutions are suffering for it. DePaul shut down its art museum’s daily operations but kept the collection
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