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Crowdsourcing can replace every job, including museum curation! The new “exile a piece of art” admission ticket adds interactivity to the art appreciation process!

Dec 2, 2018

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Crowdsourcing can replace every job, including museum curation! The new “exile a piece of art” admission ticket adds interactivity to the art appreciation process!

Background: Art museums often display a wide variety of pieces. Some art pieces may be considered to be pretentious or otherwise without merit. Unfortunately, currently there is no way to express that displeasure in an actionable form. Proposal: Art museums should sell two categories of ticket: a regular-priced general admission ticket (Figure 1), and a…

TITLE: The secret to making THE BEST ART MUSEUM possible and acquiring a collection for less than 1% the normal price of famous art. The secret ingredient: ART FORGERY.

Sep 11, 2017

Art, Culture, Design

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TITLE: The secret to making THE BEST ART MUSEUM possible and acquiring a collection for less than 1% the normal price of famous art. The secret ingredient: ART FORGERY.

The issue: It’s difficult to fully appreciate certain types of art from just a photo, especially large pieces or three-dimensional works like statues. For example: Picasso’s Guernica (11 feet high, 25 feet wide) Michelangelo’s David (17 feet tall) The Sistine Chapel ceiling The Cave of Hands Unfortunately, these famous works are spread throughout the world,…

Your lack of art appreciation has brought shame to the land. Redeem yourself with this one weird sponsorship trick.

Mar 23, 2015

Art, Culture, Design

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The issue: The fine arts constantly struggle for funding, perhaps due to their general inability to compete with modern sources of entertainment. Proposal: In art museums, commercial sponsorship could take the form of (non-destructive) modification to the works of art themselves. For example, the Mona Lisa could be holding an iPhone (an idea which has…